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Voices, The Peoples News

July 27, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE agents under fire: Dem lawmakers push to ban mask use, demand answers from DHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLwxjChY28

‘Hundreds’ of people have been removed from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention camp, says Florida governor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-bYzEqinyI

‘I was born in College Station’ U.S. citizen says ICE detained him for nearly two hours
https://www.kbtx.com/video/2025/07/27/i-pretty-much-felt-kidnapped-ice-mistakenly-detains-man-born-college-station/

‘You don’t have immunity’: Stephen Miller and ICE agents put on notice by legal expert
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-2673765097/

19-Year-Old Went to Visit Girlfriend’s Family in Another State, Then Ended Up Wrongly Detained for 10 Days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/19-old-went-visit-girlfriends-110000955.html

Third Court This Month Blocks Trump’s Unconstitutional Birthright Order. New Jersey’s attorney general, whose state took the lead on bringing the case, celebrated the ruling.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/third-court-blocks-birthright-order

Broken Promises with Devastating Consequences’: Abused Immigrant Youth Sue Trump Administration Over Cancellation of Deportation Protections
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-about-face-on-protecting-abused-and-neglected-immigrant-youth-from-deportation/262678

GOP Governor and Trump Ally Voices Concern Over Number of ICE Detainees Without Criminal Charges: ‘That Should Raise Eyebrows’
https://www.latintimes.com/gop-governor-trump-ally-voices-concern-over-number-ice-detainees-without-criminal-charges-that-587580

‘Most Detainees Aren’t Even Criminals At All’: Ivey Denounces Trump Admin ‘Weaponization Of ICE’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiz3Sgg3Xs

ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter
https://www.aol.com/news/ice-releases-deaf-mongolian-immigrant-203428045.html

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say. “They beat us, they kicked us. I even have quite a few bruises on my stomach,” he added before later showing a bruised left abdomen.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-venezuelan-deportations-el-salvador-prison

This family self-deported to Mexico, and lost everything
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/family-self-deported-mexico-lost-100153216.html

U.S. Officials Knew a Triple Murderer Was Among Detainees Being Released From Venezuela In Deal With Maduro. Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S. At least some American officials knew that Dahud Hanid Ortiz had been convicted of a triple murder when he was put on the plane to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/trump-venezuela-convicted-murderer-swap.html

‘The Government Has Presented No Evidence’: Abrego Garcia Wins Release Orders in Criminal and Immigration Cases — But Remains in Custody for Now
https://www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-llc-333211895/4135952936398-the-government-has-presented-no-evidence-abrego-garcia-wins-release-orders-in-criminal-and-immigration-cases-but-remains-in-custody-for-now

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
MAHA Sounds Alarm Over Pesticide Manufacturer Immunity. Supporters of HHS’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are warning that a new House bill includes a provision that would shield pesticide manufacturers from legal liability.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/maha-pesticide-manufacturer-immunity-section-453-glyphosate-rfk-jr-tom-cole-house-appropriations/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Goons Use AI to Delete Hundreds of Federal Regulations. One staffer at an agency where the deregulation tool was tested said that it made several errors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-use-ai-to-delete-hundreds-of-federal-regulations/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Explains Why He Might Not Make Trade Deals With Thailand And Cambodia. President Donald Trump explained why he might not pursue trade deals with Thailand and Cambodia in posts to Truth Social
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5421881-trump-thailand-cambodia-trade-deals-ceasefire/

# Education / Schools
Trump Admin Returns Education Grants It Accused Of Funding Illegal Immigrants. The Trump administration will return several education grants revoked in July for allegedly funding illegal immigrants and other “radical leftwing” priorities.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-grant-funding-immigration-093aa36735f5d50de7406ee8465e1729

Families Feel The Back-To-School Spending Squeeze As Feds Cut Education Funding. As the Trump administration freezes billions of federal funds earmarked for public schools, a startling number of parents say they can’t afford back-to-school shopping this year.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administration-withholds-billions-in-school-grants-for-critical-programs

The True Impact of School Meal Funding Cuts: More Hunger, Less Learning. Wilson: Reductions that Congress and the White House are considering would make it harder for students to learn and thrive.
https://www.the74million.org/article/the-true-impact-of-school-meal-funding-cuts-more-hunger-less-learning/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
As Private Equity Comes for the Utility Sector, Minnesota Is a Test Case. An administrative law judge has issued a report siding with opponents of BlackRock’s acquisition of an electric utility.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-private-equity-comes-for-the-utility-sector-minnesota-is-a-test-case/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
How the Trump Budget Cuts Are Playing Out at Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. National parks across the board have seen about a 24 percent reduction in staffing since the current administration
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072025/oregon-crater-lake-national-park-budget-cuts/

The Trump Administration Is Recklessly Axing Funding and Staff for America’s National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. The number of visitors to America’s public lands remains at an all-time high, while the Trump administration has made drastic cuts to popular agencies.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-recklessly-axing-funding-and-staff-for-americas-national-parks-forests-and-public-lands/

Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages. “Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/02/crater-lake-national-park-superintendent-kevin-heatley-staff-shortages/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
New FEMA grants set to hand out $600M to states so they can build migrant detention facilities
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5421400-new-fema-grant-program-gives-states-600m-to-build-migrant-detention-centers/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Melania Trump ‘Very Involved’ In Epstein Scandal:  The first lady has largely avoided the hot topic, but Trump biographer Michael Wolff suggests that she’s acting behind the scenes. Epstein–Melania BOMBSHELL? Trump Wife Breaks Silence as Rumours EXPLODE Over Sex Offender Ties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5w3EllYVeE

Trump Claims He ‘Never Went’ To Epstein’s Island, Tells People To Focus On Bill Clinton Instead. President Donald Trump lashed out at a group of reporters pressing him about his prior relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday and attempted to deflect their attention to former president Bill Clinton.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-never-went-epsteins-180834845.html

Trump Claims He ‘Never Went’ To Epstein’s Island, Tells People To Focus On Bill Clinton Instead
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-never-went-epsteins-180834845.html

It all finally makes sense – Trump threatening to crack open the Epstein case to suddenly hiding behind bushes
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/it-all-finally-makes-sense-trump-threatening-to-crack-open-the-epstein-case-to-suddenly-hiding-behind-bushes/

Court Records Reveal Feds’ Shifting Story On Epstein Files. An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
https://www.levernews.com/court-records-reveal-feds-shifting-story-on-epstein-files/

# Gov / Politics
Gabbard Is Lying About Obama and Russian Intel: Top CIA Officer. The Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/tulsi-gabbard-treason-allegation-obama-world-rcna220730

FactCheck Post: Gabbard’s Misleading ‘Coup’ Claim. The foundation for her case is misleading.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/gabbards-misleading-coup-claim/

AIPAC-Backed Lawmakers Are Pushing AI Funding for Israel. Congressional Republicans have delivered on the pro-Israel organization AIPAC’s wish list in the latest military spending bill, including tens of millions of dollars a year for the Israeli military to develop AI technologies.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/aipac-military-ndaa-israel-tech

Stunning amount Trump’s Scotland trip will cost taxpayers – largely to promote his golf courses there: report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stunning-amount-trump-scotland-trip-155730615.html

The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance.
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-backlash-2673768296/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Fact Check: Scottish newspaper headline about Trump visit referred to him as ‘convicted US felon’? The newspaper’s front page reflected Trump’s legal challenges while avoiding using his name directly in the headline.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scotland-national-newspaper-trump/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Dan Bongino Says He’s ‘Shocked’ To His ‘Core’ Over Recent ‘Public Corruption’ Investigations. Deputy Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director Dan Bongino said on X Saturday that he’ll “never be the same” after recent things he has learned.
https://www.thewrap.com/dan-bongino-statement-fbi-corruption-investigation-shocked/

Who is Robert Shinn, ‘TikTok cult’ leader whose home was raided in federal sex-trafficking probe? A handful of people were led away from the home, located in Los Angeles’ Tujunga neighborhood, in handcuffs, after FBI, IRS, US Postal Service and Labor Department agents swooped in on the residence. However, it was unclear if Shinn, 87, who has been likened to a cult leader, was among them.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/who-is-robert-shinn-tiktok-cult-leader-whose-home-was-raided-in-federal-sex-trafficking-probe/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Facing Rising Caseloads and Stagnant Pay, Hundreds of NYC Legal Workers Strike, The workers say their pay and workloads keep them from providing the best possible representation for their clients.
https://truthout.org/articles/facing-rising-caseloads-and-stagnant-pay-hundreds-of-nyc-legal-workers-strike/

# LGBTQ / Gender
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump, Colbert, And The War On Truth. The White House, billionaires and corporations are aiming to silence criticism and limit free speech.
https://www.levernews.com/trump-colbert-and-the-war-on-truth/

Corporate Media Mostly Sidestepping Russiagate Revelations For Torrent Of Trump-Epstein Coverage
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/corporate-media-mostly-sidestepping-russiagate-revelations-for-torrent-of-trump-epstein-coverage/

‘Get over it’: some middle America Trump supporters remain unfazed over Epstein files tumult. New revelations about Trump’s relationship with late sex offender dominate the news, yet many Trump boosters say they’re overblown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/27/trump-supporters-middle-america-epstein-files

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
GOP Rep. Tells Medicaid Recipients to ‘Get Off Your Ass and Get a Job’
https://www.latintimes.com/gop-rep-tells-medicaid-recipients-get-off-your-ass-get-job-587646

Eye-Popping Rate Hikes After Eyebrow-Raising Profits. After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to raise premiums. Major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/health-insurers-are-hiking-premiums-as-their-profits-balloon/ar-AA1J0TkN

U.S. health insurers seek largest jump in Obamacare premiums since 2018, study shows. Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes and higher health expenses
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/#:~:text=This%20analysis%20of%20preliminary%20rate,policy%20uncertainty%20contributed%20to%20sharp

Analysis of preliminary rate filings submitted by 105 ACA Marketplace insurers in 19 states and DC finds that ACA Marketplace insurers are requesting a median premium increase of 15% for 2026, which would represent the largest hike in premiums since 2018, the last time policy uncertainty contributed to sharp premium growth.
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
RFK Jr. looks to boot panel that decides which HIV and cancer screenings will be free: Decisions from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force impact millions of people’s access to preventative care for cancer, infectious diseases and mental health
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-preventative-services-task-force-b2796595.html

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
AIPAC-Funded Lawmakers Push For Millions In Spending On Genocide Tech. The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
https://www.levernews.com/aipac-funded-lawmakers-push-for-millions-in-spending-on-genocide-tech/

# Social Services / Programs
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Is Speeding Up Social Security Insolvency. The cuts could be as deep as $18,000 per year for a typical married couple, the report found.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-speeding-up-social-security-insolvency/

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Voices, The Peoples News

July 26, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
$1.26 BILLION to detain immigrants in tents? The federal government just awarded a massive contract to turn Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base in El Paso, into a 5,000-bed immigrant detention camp, the largest in the country. Reports confirm that the Trump administration has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to construct and operate a 5,000-bed tent facility at Fort Bliss, Texas
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-administration-to-open-largest-immigration-detention-center-in-texas/3640738

Revealed: Officials informed that Trump program ‘intended for white people’ only. A Friday report from Reutersclaims that a senior Trump administration official recently informed diplomats in South Africa that a refugee program set up by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year was explicitly intended for white people.
https://www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4136143236611-revealed-officials-informed-that-trump-program-intended-for-white-people-only

‘You Have No Rights, You’re a Migo’: Teenage U.S. Citizen Secretly Recorded His ICE Arrest. Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

Democrats ask SEC to investigate ICE detention contracts
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5420521-democrats-ask-sec-to-investigate-ice-detention-contracts/

National Guard soldier deployed to South Texas to help secure border convicted of smuggling illegal aliens into US. Sandoval was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with the Texas National Guard as part of Operation Lonestar. Following release from his orders, Sandoval remained in the Rio Grande Valley and began smuggling illegal aliens into the country in July 2024.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/national-guard-soldier-deployed-south-texas-help-secure-border-convicted-smuggling#:~:text=Sandoval%20was%20discharged%20from%20the,Ashley%20Martin%20prosecuted%20the%20case.

Quebec man says U.S. Coast Guard abducted him in Canadian waters and Border Patrol threw him in jail. The detention of 60-year-old Edouard Lallemand prompted outrage and raised questions about enforcement on shared waterways, highlighting how routine recreational activities near international borders can escalate unexpectedly.
https://www.newsweek.com/canadian-man-furious-after-us-coast-guard-cross-border-arrest-him-2104109

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Courts Banned This Herbicide Twice. The EPA Wants to Bring It Back. On July 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposal to approve registration for the use of dicamba on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybean crops.
https://www.newsweek.com/epa-seeks-bring-back-twice-banned-pesticide-2103447

Scientists call for removal of over 4,200 “chemicals of concern” from plastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-plastic-chemicals-highlight-safer.html

# Children / Youth
Alabama authorities rescue at least 10 kids from sex trafficking ring. Children as young as three were rescued from the bunker. Authorities say people would make appointments to abuse them. Seven people have been arrested so far
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/alabama-sex-trafficking-rescue-kids-bunker/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Is Using Your Taxpayer Dollars to Promote His New Golf Course. President Trump is using $10 million of our taxes to market his new golf course in Scotland.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198465/trump-taxpayer-money-promote-golf-course-scotland

Trump’s trade deals are illegal, Piper Sandler warns, predicting a Supreme Court smackdown by June 2026
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-trade-deals-illegal-piper-140346962.html

# Education / Schools
Tennessee school won’t accept doctor’s notes for absences. The policy will also count kids as tardy if they are sent home by the school nurse
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5421394-tennessee-school-doctors-note-chronic-absenteeism/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / OSHA
Trump Labor Department Launches ‘Barrage of Attacks’ on Workers. “They’re showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-labor-department-attacks-workers

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US electricity prices skyrocket under Trump, hitting highest levels in years
https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/business/us-electricity-prices-continue-to-climb-under-trump/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come. Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.
https://www.wired.com/story/kerr-countys-tragic-flood-wasnt-an-outlier-it-was-a-preview/

# General News / Floods
‘Gross negligence’: Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff says. The National Weather Service began forecasting the threat of flooding in Kerr County as early as Thursday morning with a hazardous flooding outlook, CNN previously reported. A flood watch was issued at 1:18 p.m. CT, that highlighted Kerrville, among other locations, as being at risk of flash flooding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-officials-begin-state-investigation-040143066.html

Trump administration denies federal disaster assistance for Western Maryland floods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wCB1SwPY8

# General News / Trump / Epstein
President Donald Trump continues to be dogged by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal even while visiting another continent.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-conspiracy-theories/

‘Fix is in’: Trump sparks outrage by leaving door open to pardoning Epstein co-conspirator
https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump-epstein-2673760119/

Three critical stories are getting buried by the Trump-Epstein debacle. The Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case appears to constitute the rare controversy in which there are no innocuous explanations for what has unfolded. The possibilities range from bad to worse for everyone involved.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/16/jeffrey-epstein-doj-pam-bondi-column-00454487

‘Reducing her sentence’: Republican confirms plan to free Ghislaine Maxwell early if she plays ball
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/reducing-her-sentence-republican-confirms-plan-to-free-ghislaine-maxwell-early-if-she-plays-ball/

Ghislaine Maxwell spoke to DOJ about 100 people linked to Epstein: Attorney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdSKlwBAkGM

Trump and Bondi Have 100,000 Pages of Epstein Documents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-bondi-100-000-pages-191504751.html

The Main Obstacle Keeping Congress From Getting Answers on Epstein. The coils of the Epstein snare are tightening around Donald Trump, his lackeys in the Justice Department, and his desperate defenders in Congress.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-epstein-news-republicans-congress-subpoena-hearings.html

# Gov / Politics
‘Critical’: 14 GOP senators call on Trump to stop withholding money from their states
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senators-trump-funds/

‘Like hiring someone to rob me’: Trump ridiculed over new ‘rebate’ proposal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/like-hiring-someone-to-rob-me-trump-ridiculed-over-new-rebate-proposal/ar-AA1Jj4bT

‘Not just racist but stupid’: VP slammed for ‘sleight of hand’ while promoting far-right theory. Are the real Americans white? That’s not just racist but stupid; most Black Americans today have ancestors that lived in America significantly longer, on average, than white Americans.”
https://www.alternet.org/jd-vance-baseless-claim/

‘Elon is going to get decimated:’ How Trump’s feud with the world’s richest man might end. “They’re going to take his money, they’re going to shutter his businesses, and they’re going to either incarcerate or deport him,” Cohen said. “He’s probably got the White House working overtime already, as we speak, figuring out how to close his whole damn thing down.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-going-decimated-trumps-feud-160346534.html

Don’t Count on the U.S. Supreme Court to Corral Trump. Trump appears determined to destroy the two and a half century U.S. experiment in democracy. The U.S. Supreme Court is enabling him to do so.
https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-donald-trump-us-supreme-court-republicans-democracy-autocracy-us-congress-us-constitution/

After accusing Obama of treason, Trump now says the former president ‘owes me big’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/25/donald-trump-barack-obama-treason-immunity-jeffrey-epstein/85372083007/

Another Top Democrat Warns Party Will Redistrict Blue States If Republicans Move Forward In Texas: ‘All Is Fair In Love And War’
https://www.latintimes.com/another-top-democrat-warns-party-will-redistrict-blue-states-if-republicans-move-forward-texas-587542

29 Senators Demand Investigation Into Israeli Killing of American in West Bank. “It is long past time for the US government to demand accountability in these killings,” the Democrats said.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5420192-senators-demand-justice-american-palestinian/

Nobody wants to work with Pete Hegseth, and now Trump has to deal with the chief he tried to boot
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/nobody-wants-to-work-with-pete-hegseth-and-now-trump-has-to-deal-with-the-chief-he-tried-to-boot/

Supreme Court blocks North Dakota redistricting ruling that would gut key part of Voting Rights Act
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/supreme-court-ruling-north-dakota-voting-rights-act-00475642

Ted Cruz Wants to Use Law Meant to Prosecute Gangs to Go After Anti-ICE Protest Organizers. Three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, would have rejected the appeal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/supreme-court-ruling-north-dakota-voting-rights-act-00475642

Trump gives big promotion to ‘dangerous’ official who said ‘white men must be in charge.’ One official in President Donald Trump’s administration just got a new job heading up a congressionally funded organization that Trump previously tried to eliminate.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-big-promotion/

Trump Impeachment Campaign Makes Major Moves in House. Backed by a growing protest movement and a formal campaign known as “Impeach Trump. Again.” led by constitutional lawyers at Free Speech For People, the effort accuses President Trump of a sweeping list of constitutional violations and abuses of power. Supporters of the movement argue that Congress must now act decisively to defend the democracy.
https://knewz.com/trump-impeachment-campaign-makes-major-moves-in-house/

President Donald Trump is taking direct action to shape the 2026 midterm elections by making personal calls to Republican lawmakers across the country. The president and his senior White House aides have been steering Republican candidates in key House and Senate races to avoid messy primary battles and strengthen their chances of keeping control of Congress.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trump-just-made-some-very-specific-calls-to-republican-lawmakers-and-now-theyre-completely-changing-their-2026-plans/

Alina Habba Is Back in Power Thanks to Shady Trump Move. Donald Trump is bypassing the Senate—and overruling judges—to keep Habba in charge.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-pulls-shady-move-keep-142751963.html

WATCH: Congressional Candidate Thrown to the Ground, Dragged Out of Wild Texas Redistricting Hearing
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/watch-congressional-candidate-thrown-to-the-ground-dragged-out-of-wild-texas-redistricting-hearing/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Grenade missing after LA explosion that killed 3 deputies
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/07/26/grenade-is-missing-scene-an-explosion-that-killed-3-la-deputies/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
‘Do not cross me’: Ex-DOJ prosecutor explains why ‘bogus’ Trump lawsuit is especially dangerous. “Trump has a habit of filing monstrous lawsuits against news outlets that do reporting he doesn’t like. But the facts don’t really matter. They never do with Trump.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-wehle-murdoch/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump Adviser Warns Stephen Colbert Is Just the Beginning. FCC Chair Brendan Carr had a chilling threat for all media critical of Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198463/donald-trump-fcc-warns-stephen-colbert-just-beginning

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
‘Walking a tightrope’: Millions of Trump voters are about to get bigger bills — here’s why. Millions of people are expected to lose health insurance in the coming years as a result of the tax cut legislation Trump signed this month, leaving them with fewer protections from large bills if they get sick or suffer an accident.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-medical-bills-2673764231/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying. There it was, sandwiched between the review on bloodborne pathogens and quizzes about HIPAA, information on unreasonable search and seizure and the right to remain silent. It was then that I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor-trump-patient-privacy-ice_n_687e3e9de4b06691ec25114c

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Tech Billionaires Spearhead Efforts to Build Gene-Edited Designer Babies. Bootstrap Bio, a company created about 18 months ago, has “hired a chief science officer, opened a lab and pivoted its work” to genetic editing of human embryos, Bloomberg reported. In June, MIT Technology Review reported that the founder of Coinbase, whose worth is estimated at $10 billion, posted on X that he is “ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tech-billionaires-spearhead-efforts-gene-edited-designer-babies/

RFK Jr. to oust entire panel behind cancer screening guidelines for being too ‘woke’
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk/

Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to allow $783 million research-funding cuts n its push to roll back federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. U.S. District Judge William Young said the cuts amounted to “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.” An appeals court left the ruling in place.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-institutes-of-health-research-cuts-6b69c254bc245f0ec1c7ddf1af74281f

# Medical // Global
Belgium is trying to stop the Trump administration from burning $9.7M in medical supplies—but a ‘regrettable outcome’ looms. The Trump administration was primarily driven by its ideological opposition to family planning.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/belgium-is-trying-to-stop-the-trump-administration-from-burning-9-7m-in-medical-supplies-but-a-regrettable-outcome-looms/

# Military / Global
Mysterious annex at North Korean missile plant has analysts puzzled
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/07/23/mysterious-annex-at-north-korean-missile-plant-has-analysts-puzzled/

Russia’s Using New R-77M Air-To-Air Missile In Ukraine. The long-range R-77M air-to-air missile, a much-improved version of the AA-12 Adder, appears to have been used in combat.
https://www.twz.com/air/signs-russias-using-new-r-77m-air-to-air-missile-in-ukraine

Thai F-16 Strikes As Border Dispute With Cambodia Erupts. Long-running tensions have spilled over into heavy exchanges of fire in the disputed border region between Thailand and Cambodia.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/thai-f-16-strikes-as-border-dispute-with-cambodia-erupts

# Pharmaceuticals
Rep. Gosar Reintroduces Bill to Strip Liability Protection From Vaccine Makers
https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8582

Drugmaker-telehealth deals risk unnecessary prescribing, senators’ probe finds. An investigation by Democratic senators has raised concerns about conflicts of interest in telehealth companies’ ties to pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/17/pfizer-eli-lilly-telehealth-senate-investigation/

# Social / Communities
Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing. On Feb. 27, the Trump administration abruptly canceled funding grants for 78 nonprofit organizations that work to combat housing discrimination nationwide
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/hud-cuts-eviction-fears-disability-discrimination-and-trumps-war-on-fair-housing/

New Trump Executive Order Will Further Criminalize Homelessness, Mental Illness. “Mental illness is not a crime, and people with mental illness deserve to be treated as human beings, with dignity and respect, to truly address the systemic causes of this crisis, we should be pouring resources into treatment to improve early access to care and investing in supportive housing and other wrap-around services.
https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-statement-on-executive-order-targeting-homelessness-and-criminalizing-mental-illness/

ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Order Targeting Disabled and Unhoused People. President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental health disabilities and substance use disorder.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-trump-executive-order-targeting-disabled-and-unhoused-people

Southern California community pleading for help after Trump Administration pulls funding. In Rancho Palos Verdes, a handful of landslides have been moving homes for years and recent wet winters have made things worse.
https://patch.com/california/palosverdes/southern-california-community-pleading-help-after-trump-administration-pulls

Trump order shifts homelessness strategy toward enforcement. Trump order pushes cities to remove homeless people from streets. Follows ruling allowing arrests for sleeping outdoors, Critics say policy ignores housing and violates rights
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-homelessness-strategy/

# Social Services / Programs
3-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Hot Car While with Child Services, Which Took Him Away from His Family. The boy was left for hours while a contract worker for the state ran “personal errands,” the family’s attorney says
https://people.com/3-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-by-the-department-of-human-resources-who-took-him-away-from-his-father-11778946

# Sports
United States denies entire team visas for Little League World Series
https://www.newsweek.com/us-denies-visas-venezuelan-little-league-baseball-team-2104257

# Veterans / VA
Lawmakers convene special hearing at veterans center to examine rural health care challenges
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-25/veterans-rural-health-care-18556522.html#:~:text=The%20two%2Dhour%20hearing%20of,in%20remote%20areas%20know%20they‘

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# Indigenous
On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow. Austin shared his list of 49 flowing wells he’d found across the Navajo Nation over the years in New Mexico and Utah. Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/24/on-the-navajo-nation-the-list-of-mystery-wells-continues-to-grow/

As Donald Trump ramps up his mass deportation efforts, a petition has arisen asking for his wife, Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia, to be deported. Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006. Her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, also became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2018 through family-based immigration, which President Trump has previously criticized as “chain migration.”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-melania-trump-could-be-deported-under-new-rules-joy-reid-warns-shes-outta-here-under-deporting-denaturalizing-citizens-policy/articleshow/122267764.cms?from=mdr

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Fact Check: Melania Trump’s parents came to U.S. through process Donald Trump tried to curb. True: First lady Melania Trump’s parents came to the United States through a family-based sponsorship, also referred to derogatorily as “chain migration.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-melania-trumps-parents-110000838.html

Abrego Garcia Wins Bail, Can’t Be Detained Again Without Notice, Judge Orders. Abrego Garcia’s release will be delayed by 30 days as his lawyers ponder additional protective order requests.
https://truthout.org/articles/abrego-garcia-wins-bail-cant-be-detained-again-without-notice-judge-orders/

Fear Of US Federal Agents Force Texas Immigrants To Stay Indoors Even During Medical Crisis”We’re not bad people,” Maria says from her dining room table, where her 4-year-old son happily eats a lime green popsicle.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/fear-of-us-federal-agents-force-texas-immigrants-to-stay-indoors-even-during-medical-crisis-8920086

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration

Homeland Security urges Americans to report former lovers to ICE: ‘From domestic abuser to deported loser’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-report-tip-line-immigration-ex-b2794141.html

House Republicans warn anti-ICE rhetoric from Democrats is driving violent attacks on agents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-warn-anti-ice-130007978.html

Latino neighborhoods overwhelmingly targeted in immigration raids, rights group says
https://www.dailygazette.com/tribune/latino-neighborhoods-overwhelmingly-targeted-in-immigration-raids-rights-group-says/article_7cf02851-4eb8-5ee8-a22e-cc06893e319d.html

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive. Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/inside-cecot-mega-prison-el-salvador/683646/

ICE’s Shocking Midday Kidnappings Remind Me of Something I’ve Seen Before. American police are turning away from this terrifying, chaotic practice—but the agency is embracing it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/immigration-donald-trump-ice-policing.html

The state where immigration raids are becoming a problem for Republicans
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/california-republicans-ice-raids-backlash-00471909

US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in west Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-detention-deportation-kristi-noem-a27916786c732c8f784a1d388a10e752

# Bundy Rides Again
Can Ammon Bundy Escape a $52 Million Judgment w/ Bankruptcy?
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/law-justice/2025-07-15/ammon-bundy-bankruptcy-st-lukes-judgment

Ammon Bundy makes veiled threats while in hiding after $52m defamation ruling. The far-right militant is wanted on contempt of court charges stemming from a multi-million dollar lawsuit
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ammon-bundy-idaho-defamation-arrest-b2469652.html

Back in good LDS standing, Ammon Bundy talks about his life in Utah as a wanted man. Police in the Beehive State show little interest in arresting the anti-federal government zealot, and Idaho appears to be relieved he’s no longer there “pulling stunts…with his little band of merry men.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04/27/anti-government-zealot-ammon-bundy/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
EPA proposes bringing dicamba herbicide back to farms after court bans.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-dicamba-weed-killer-herbicide-2f5a3bce541e2e9965a66ecc21281835

Congress Asked To Stop Provision in Approps Bill Blocking Pesticide Lawsuits on Farmer and Consumer Harm
https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2025/07/congress-asked-to-stop-provision-in-approps-bill-blocking-lawsuits-by-farmers-and-consumers-harmed-by-pesticides/

Trump moves to speed AI growth by cutting environmental protections. Trump AI plan would “ramp up exploitation” of people and the environment, advocates warn
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/07/trump-ai-plan-would-ramp-up-exploitation-of-people-and-the-environment-advocates-warn/

White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/water-pesticide-polution-california-trump

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Experts See Echoes of the 1930s Amid Trump’s Tariff Tantrums. If a US-European tariff war really does kick off in earnest, the consequences could be hugely damaging.
https://truthout.org/articles/experts-see-echoes-of-the-1930s-amid-trumps-tariff-tantrums/

# Education / Schools
Consent decrees force schools to desegregate. The Trump administration is striking them down. Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, will not be forced to follow the law for the first time since the 1960s
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-consent-decrees-school-segregation

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Microplastics wreaking havoc on human hormones, fertility, a new review says. Tiny bits of plastic pollution are found all across the natural environment from the deep ocean to Arctic ice. This widespread contamination comes from the manufacture and overuse of plastics which degrade over time and leach toxic chemicals into the environment and the food system.
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/microplastics-wreaking-havoc-on-human-hormones-fertility/?mc_cid=aa92e82d97&mc_eid=485b9951ab

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Texas Emergency Management Chief Raises Disaster Communication Concerns With State Lawmakers. He called for improvements to communication and warning systems.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072025/texas-emergency-management-chief-disaster-communication-concerns-after-floods/

20 States Sue Trump Administration for Slashing FEMA Disaster Mitigation Program. A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration last Wednesday over the shutting down of a multibillion-dollar grant program with the purpose of strengthening natural disaster preparation and mitigation.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-trump-disaster-grants-beff4bbc84a88e1b7136749ad3012590

Trump targets disaster mitigation funds, raising risks in future crises
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5418834-trump-texas-fema-natural-disaster-funds-nws-noaa/

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Trump Shakes Up Bloated Agriculture Department, Relocates Bureaucrats Out Of Beltway. USDA announced a sweeping reorganization and significant staff reductions, citing a bloated workforce and rampant overspending during the Biden administration.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/24/trump-shakes-up-agriculture-department-relocates-bureaucrats/

# General News
Michelle Obama Artist Pulls Show Over Trump Censorship Threats. The portraiture gallery suggested replacing a potentially controversial portrait with a video of people reacting to the painting.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/amy-sherald-national-portrait-gallery

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5416606-a-wrongly-arrested-grandma-is-taking-on-the-us-marshals/

# General News / Floods
Man finds 10 flood victims on his land, bringing closure to grieving Kerr County families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhdzUAun8I

Two still missing in Kerr County after woman’s body is recovered Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFCKJFbLC0

Bodies of 12 flood victims recovered on Kerrville family’s property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3TEIQ4qqo

FEMA delays disaster aid to multiple states while Texas receives rapid approval
https://www.dailyclimate.org/fema-delays-disaster-aid-to-multiple-states-while-texas-receives-rapid-approval-2673754102.html

Delays and dysfunction: How Trump’s FEMA overhaul failed Texas flood victims. As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the resignation of a top official.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/07/24/delays-and-dysfunction-how-trumps-fema-overhaul-failed-texas-flood-victims/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘Dumpster fire’: Senator explains what makes Trump DOJ’s response to Epstein so ‘weird’
https://thehill.com/video/this-is-a-dumpster-fire-sen-whitehouse-d-on-government-funding-jeffrey-epstein-trending/10919433/

‘What the hell is going on?’ Senator bewildered by suspicious threads in Epstein saga
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-cover-up/

Court Records Reveal Feds’ Shifting Story On Epstein Files. An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
https://www.levernews.com/court-records-reveal-feds-shifting-story-on-epstein-files/

DOJ Meets with Ghislaine Maxwell Today
https://www.today.com/video/doj-meets-with-ghislaine-maxwell-as-epstein-scrutiny-intensifies-243823173647

Ghislaine Maxwell Didn’t Plead the Fifth During Six-Hour DOJ Grilling: Lawyer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-didn-t-plead-the-fifth-during-six-hour-doj-grilling-lawyer/ar-AA1Jfdx3

Oversight Committee Moves To Subpoena The Clintons, Comey, Garland And Others In Epstein Probe. Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena a slate of former top officials in a rare show of bipartisanship.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416843-epstein-doj-investigation-subpoenas/

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.  Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-epstein-fiasco-takes-darker-100000547.html

Three critical stories that are getting buried by Epsteingate. We have little or no chance of rectifying the most serious wrongs if we’re captivated by the most exciting. The public conversation has become so distorted by the moral squalor of Trump and his lackeys that I fear we’re confusing what’s exciting with what’s important.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-we-should-be-talking-about-imho

Schumer Explodes at Trump Sending His Trial Lawyer to Interview Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Stinks of High Corruption’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/schumer-explodes-trump-sending-trial-100039938.html

House Panel Votes to Subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton in Epstein Probe
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/epstein-clinton-comey-house-panel-subpoenas

These are the names a House panel plans to subpoena in its Epstein probe
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/epstein-clinton-comey-house-panel-subpoenas

# Gov / Politics
‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Even Trump’s own appointees can’t save his delusion as judges refuse to rewrite reality in his favor
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/blatantly-unconstitutional-even-trumps-own-appointees-cant-save-his-delusion-as-judges-refuse-to-rewrite-reality-in-his-favor/

‘Said it out loud’: GOP senator slammed for admitting Republicans aim to ‘cover’ for Trump
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senator-cover-trump/

Trump in a ‘very sour mood’ because ‘people don’t like what he’s doing on any topic’: Morning Joe
https://www.alternet.org/trump-vandehei-scarborough/

Republican power-struggle is ‘the game to watch’ as Trump vanishes ‘before our eyes’: expert
https://www.alternet.org/trump-decline-gop/

U.S. cuts short Gaza ceasefire talks and accuses Hamas of lacking ‘good faith.’ Hamas’ latest response “shows a lack of desire” to reach a truce, President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479673/gaza-ceasefire-talks-cut-short-us-israel-hamas

The United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States’ decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco

Withdrawal of the United States of America from UNESCO: statement by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General. Statement attributable to Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/withdrawal-united-states-america-unesco-statement-audrey-azoulay-director-general
See also: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
https://www.unesco.org/en

‘Absolute threat’: Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly breaks with Trump over key policy issue
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/24/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-ai-trump-00474396

House Republican Claims GOP Leaders Are Conspiring to Block Trump From Making Recess Appointments
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-report-tip-line-immigration-ex-b2794141.html

JD Vance’s “Intellectual” Spin on the Racist Great Replacement Theory. As the Trump administration advances its draconian immigration schemes, the vice president is doing his part—by polishing ideas from the far-right gutters with an Ivy League sheen.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198347/jd-vance-great-replacement-theory

# Gov / Politics / Global
France will officially recognise a Palestinian state in September, President Emmanuel Macron has said, which will make it the first G7 nation to do so.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg5g4p3245o

420,000 Aid Pallets Await Entry Into Gaza as Israel Blames Starvation on Aid Groups. Oxfam says preventable diseases are ripping through Gaza as Israel maintains its near-total blockade on aid.
https://truthout.org/articles/420k-aid-pallets-await-entry-into-gaza-as-israel-blames-starvation-on-aid-groups/

Israel Restricting Visas for UN Humanitarian Workers for Gaza, Amid Starvation. Israel notified the agency of the restrictions after it spoke out about the Israeli slaughter of aid seekers in Gaza.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-restricting-visas-for-un-humanitarian-workers-for-gaza-amid-starvation/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Kentucky Cop Who Jailed Woman for Filming from Her Porch Goes Viral Again—Now Sued for Dragging Delivery Driver from Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0mTyYaJN_I

A wrongly arrested grandma taking on the US marshals. McCarthy did nothing illegal or suspicious. But the marshals accused her of being Carole Anne Rozak, a fugitive wanted for a 25-year-old parole violation for a nonviolent crime.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5416606-a-wrongly-arrested-grandma-is-taking-on-the-us-marshals/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Alert! Trump threatens political ‘enemies’ in chilling DOJ speech. Donald Trump visited the Justice Department and delivered an hour-long speech in which he called for his political enemies to be jailed, suggested it should be “illegal” to criticize judges, and declared it should be “illegal” to say he lost the election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFezDZ1jaM

‘Alice in Wonderland world’: Political science expert explains how Trump got DOJ to do his ‘bidding’
https://www.alternet.org/trump-gabbard-obama/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
“CANCELED ON LIVE TV!” – Karoline Leavitt DROPS BOMBSHELL on Whoopi Goldberg — ‘The View’ Spins Into Total Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8t0Fj_bO0

‘E! News’ TV Program to End After 34 Years. The impending end of E! News comes after another popular late night talk show will also conclude in 2026
https://www.the-sun.com/tv/14813680/e-news-canceled-years-last-air-date/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
“The NIH is not just a national treasure — it is a global beacon of biomedical excellence. Its integrity, productivity and impact are unrivalled. We must not weaken it.” Kevin Kent Lloyd, Karen Johnston and Barbara Kelley, three senior US National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisers, speak out against ongoing grant terminations, planned budget cuts of 40% for 2026 and a proposed structural reorganization of the agency
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02331-1?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=371cd4c3c5-nature-briefing-daily-20250724&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50037248

# Social / Communities
‘Why Don’t You Put a Whites Only Sign?’—Video of Manager Threatening to Call Cops on Black Customer for Taking ‘too Long to Purchase’ Sparks Massive Outrage. The incident, highlighted in a social media video, underscores a continuing issue of racial profiling and discrimination faced by Black individuals while shopping
https://www.inquisitr.com/why-dont-you-put-a-whites-only-sign-video-of-manager-threatening-to-call-cops-on-black-customer-for-taking-too-long-to-purchase-sparks-massive-outrage

Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5479139/trump-homelessness-executive-order-civil-commitment-camping

Whites-only community plotting expansion to another state as its efforts to build a ‘white nation’ continue
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/return-to-the-land-whites-only-community-b2795213.html

# Veterans / VA
‘Slap in the face’: Vet fumes as Afghan interpreter who saved his life faces deportation
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673716268/

# Water / Lakes / Oceans / Rivers
‘We stand on the brink of system failure’: Feds up pressure for states to reach deal on the future of the Colorado River. The clock is ticking for seven states to figure out how they’ll share dwindling water in the Colorado River for the foreseeable future.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/06/26/trump-admin-turns-up-pressure-sets/

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July 24, 2025
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
GOP congressman: ‘Round everybody up and deport them all,’ before he claimed that undocumented immigrants are a “huge drain” on the U.S. economy. Experts disagree.
https://local.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4128030624079-gop-congressman-round-everybody-up-and-deport-them-all

Alabama: Father of 4-year-old leukemia-stricken girl faces deportation by ICE, ‘He is devoted to her’
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2025/07/dont-be-sad-alabama-father-detained-by-ice-while-his-4-year-old-battles-leukemia.html

Cornyn: ‘Illegal aliens’ not entitled to same due process as Americans. Senators spar over ICE raids as witnesses share emotional testimony of how immigration policy has ripped their families
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/cornyn-illegal-aliens-not-entitled-to-same-due-process-as-americans/

Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon release from custody. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the federal government “shall restore Abrego Garcia to his ICE Order of Supervision out of the Baltimore Field Office,” paving the way for his return to Maryland.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-custody/

Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone.’ Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/trumps-immigration-children-unaccompanied-minors

Trump administration moves to rapidly deport migrant children, asking teens if they want to leave
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-trump-administration-moves-rapidly-215017158.html

Feds Make It a Crime to Give PPE to ICE Protesters. The Trump administration is targeting nonviolent acts like identifying masked agents and aiding LA’s anti-ICE protests.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice/

State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE. Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to immigration authorities.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/ice-gang-database-trump-deportations/

The Pentagon Won’t Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. The Pentagon says 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be markedly higher.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/military-troops-deployed-border-ice/

Trump admin prepares to kick mixed immigration status families out of public housing. A pending HUD rule mirrors an old Trump proposal that would force families with undocumented members to leave their homes or be separated.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/hud-immigration-mixed-status-eviction/

Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities. A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
https://san.com/cc/border-patrol-seeks-surveillance-technology-to-see-through-walls/

Heavily armed Mexican soldiers accidentally cross US border, surround Americans while looking for drug traffickers, gunrunners
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-post-509648/4126721559161-heavily-armed-mexican-soldiers-accidentally-cross-us-border-surround-americans-while-looking-for-drug-traffickers-gunrunners

Latino tenants sued their landlord. A lawyer told them they would be ‘picked up by ICE’: “I was born here. I have a birth certificate. I pay taxes. I was already depressed over the eviction,” she added. “Now I’m hurt, embarrassed and nervous as well. Will he really call ICE on us?”
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/los-angeles-eviction-landlord-ice-b2794709.html

Terrifying moment dad pleads with ICE agents to let his child out of the car at daycare before they arrest him. The alarming footage shows the 38-year-old chiropractor asking ICE agents to “wait for three minutes” because “there is a baby in the car.” After the child was removed, ICE officers can be seen cracking open the driver’s side window.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/terrifying-moment-dad-pleads-ice-135654336.html

ICE Sets Its Sights on a New Target in Deportation Drive. An advocacy group leader says the change will harm the most vulnerable people in an attempt to boost deportation numbers.
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4130035318390-ice-sets-its-sights-on-a-new-target-in-deportation-drive

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement ‘Corporate Dictatorship.’ In an interview on Decoder, tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing emerging ideology espoused by the “Nerd Reich,” a slurry of ideas championed by benevolent figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others.
https://futurism.com/billionaires-corporate-dictatorship

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
There’s a new acid in our rain. A chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is falling in rain and its levels are rising across the planet — in lakes and rivers, food crops, trees, and in our own bodies
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02259-6

We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.
https://www.vox.com/climate/401600/pfas-microplastics-pollution-rain

# Consumer Product Safety
SCOTUS rules Trump can remove three Democrats from Consumer Product Safety Commission. The justices once again have backed the president’s power to reshape agencies that Congress sought to insulate from political pressure. All three liberal justices dissented.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/supreme-court-consumer-product-safety-firings-00472292

# Education / Schools
‘You voted for all of this’: GOP senator ripped for saying Trump’s law could close schools
https://www.alternet.org/gop-murkowski-schools/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency drafting plan to destroy environment, boost emissions, aid polluters. The administration is reportedly rescinding a landmark declaration about the danger greenhouse emissions pose to humans
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/environmental-protection-agency-endangerment-finding-1235392233/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Trump goes on FEMA spending binge announcing several states will receive federal funding months after disasters
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fema-funding-states-truth-social-b2794516.html

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘Deal with it’: Top Senate Republican gives Mike Johnson an ultimatum over Epstein scandal
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senate-johnson/

Speaker Johnson questions if Ghislaine Maxwell can ‘be counted on to tell the truth’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416064-speaker-johnson-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein/

Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘worse’ than Jeffrey Epstein, claims accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre: ‘She is a monster.’ “She’s worse than Epstein,” Giuffre declared. “She did things even worse than Epstein did. She was vicious, she was evil and she was a woman.”
https://www.aol.com/2020-07-16-ghislaine-maxwell-is-worse-than-jeffrey-epstein-claims-accuser-virginia-roberts-giuffre-she-is-a-monster-24563772.html

Federal judge denies DOJ’s request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts. The DOJ had cited “extensive public interest” and “transparency to the American public” in its request
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/jeffrey-esptein-grand-jury-doj-00471291

House subcommittee passes motion to subpoena Clintons over Maxwell connection. The move comes the same day Comer subpoenaed Maxwell for a deposition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416843-epstein-doj-investigation-subpoenas/

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-epstein-fiasco-takes-darker-100000547.html

Epstein’s Brother Exposes Just How Close Epstein and Trump Really Were. Mark Epstein says Trump is lying about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein to “cover his butt.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5415258-epstein-brother-white-house-claim-blatant-lie/

# Gov / Politics
American fascism, is it alarmist to point out the parallels? While it’s not necessarily alarmist to point out parallels between American politics and historical fascism, it’s crucial to do so with careful consideration and nuance. But this descent into fascism is coming on faster and more flagrantly than almost anyone would have foreseen.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-07-23-american-fascism/

‘Menace’: Former Air Force secretary says Trump using ‘universal tool of authoritarians.’ Kendall further said the insidious fear brought on by Trump’s second term has penetrated not only military and civil services, but extends into “universities, law firms, C‑suites and the leadership of nonprofit organizations.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/menace-former-air-force-secretary-says-trump-using-universal-tool-of-authoritarians/ar-AA1J0Q5e

Donald Trump just pulled a Jimmy Carter move that could destroy America’s relationship with Brazil forever
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/donald-trump-just-pulled-a-jimmy-carter-move-that-could-destroy-americas-relationship-with-brazil-forever/

Tulsi Gabbard Says She’s Referring Obama For Criminal Charges. Russiagate reignited: Tulsi Gabbard says Barack Obama engineered false intel, DOJ to review charges
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/russiagate-reignited-tulsi-gabbard-says-barack-obama-engineered-false-intel-doj-to-review-charges-11753300695097.html

Ro Khanna Says Mike Johnson’s Decision To Shut Down The House Early Speaks Volumes. The California Democrat said the House speaker likely acted at the direction of President Donald Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/khanna-criticizes-johnson-call-to-adjourn-house-early_n_6880ad5ae4b0f277db45279b

Trump administration defies one in three court orders, undermining rule of law. Analysis finds the White House routinely ignores federal court rulings, triggering growing concern over constitutional crises and erosion of judicial power.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-white-house-refuses-to-abide-by-1-in-3-court-orders-made-against-them/

Trump faces roadblock in prosecuting Obama for ‘treason’ after his own presidential immunity ruling
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-many-roadblocks-trump-prosecuting-161520249.html

Why is Trump calling out Zelenskyy? What does this mean for the future of global peace and America’s role in international politics? This unexpected move is sparking debates and could have major consequences for diplomatic relations, the economy, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The absurd fight over Trump’s MAGA prosecutor in New Jersey, explained. Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
https://www.vox.com/criminal-justice/420816/alina-habba-new-jersey-donald-trump-us-attorney

# Gov / Politics / Global
American man from Oklahoma ‘brutally executed’ by Syrian-backed jihadis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/american-man-oklahoma-brutally-executed-173908707.html

US Military Veteran Working for Aid Site in Gaza Says He Had ‘Never Seen Such Force Used Against Unarmed Civilians’: US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery. Man who claims to have worked for US Mercenary firm UG Solutions says he has never seen such violence inflicted on unarmed civilians
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-contractor-recounts-gruesome-details-gaza-aid-delivery

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Cops Force Black Man Out of Car and Accuse Him of Selling Drugs—All They Recover Is $10 After He Gave Someone a Ride
https://www.inquisitr.com/cops-force-black-man-out-of-car-and-accuse-him-of-selling-drugs-all-they-recover-is-10-after-he-gave-someone-a-ride#deny

# LGBTQ / Gender
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump Escalates His War on the Press. The president is not happy with reporting linking him with Jeffrey Epstein. White House Correspondents Association, retorted: “This attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment. Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-07-23/trump-escalates-his-war-on-the-press

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
‘He has no clue!’ Pentagon insiders pen blistering letter demanding Pete Hegseth be fired
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-pentagon-press-pledge/

# NASA
NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Earth-Tracking NISAR Satellite
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-for-earth-tracking-nisar-satellite/

# NORAD
NORAD intercepts Russian bombers and fighters near Alaska:  July 24, 2024, NORAD intercepted six Russian military aircraft, including two Tu-95 bombers, two Su-35 fighters, one Tu-142 F/J, and one A-50 Mainstay, operating near the Western Aleutian Islands.
Duration: The intercept lasted about two and a half hours.
NORAD Response: NORAD launched fighter jets from Alaska to monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft.
International Airspace: The aircraft remained in international airspace, not posing a direct threat to U.S. or Canadian territory.
ADIZ: The Alaska ADIZ is a designated area extending 150 miles from U.S. sovereign territory, where aircraft are expected to identify themselves.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-intercepts-russian-bombers-fighters-near-alaska/

# Other Interesting Stuff / Lost Civilizations / Archaeology / Astronomy
Treasure trove of half-billion-year-old animal fossils in Grand Canyon. It’s the first time Cambrian fossils have been found in the Grand Canyon.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/grand-canyon-animal-fossils/
Also: Preserved Cambrian biota from the Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv6383

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs? Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we’re in trouble.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going

# Veterans / VA
Republican lawmakers take aim at VA bonuses amid staffing cuts
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/07/23/republican-lawmakers-take-aim-at-va-bonuses-amid-staffing-cuts/

‘Gaslit and abandoned’: Gulf War veterans push to declassify documents on chemical exposure. Advocates are pushing the Defense Department to declassify thousands of documents relating to the potential toxic exposures of more than 100,000 troops from the 1991 demolition of a chemical weapons complex in southern Iraq.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-22/gulf-war-veterans-chemical-exposure-18518789.html

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July 23, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
2,000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2000-national-guard-troops-expected-170727514.html

Military bases in New Jersey and Indiana will be expanded to detain immigrants
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5475109/immigrant-detention-military-bases

Advocates demand closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, citing appalling conditions. Non-profit groups say detained immigrants in Florida are denied medical care and living in ‘cages flooded with feces’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/22/florida-alligator-alcatraz-mexico

Alligator Alcatraz is overlit, mosquito-filled hell where inmates rarely get to shower, inmate says. The Cuban migrant said that he and 32 other people live in what he described as a cage and that they are only allowed to shower every three or four days.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/4125089650994-alligator-alcatraz-is-overlit-mosquito-filled-hell-where-inmates-rarely-get-to-shower-inmate-says

Another Migrant Dies Under ICE Custody After Experiencing ‘Seizures, Vomiting, And Unresponsiveness’: The 55-year-old had been detained at the Immigration Processing Center for seven weeks before being taken to a local hospital and later airlifted to a larger hospital. The cause of death is currently under investigation.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/vietnamese-national-dies-ice-custody

Cartels targeting homes as smuggling profits dwindle. Del Rio resident loses over $60K in guns, jewelry, documents to break-in. Thieves dragged safe across border; Mexican officials guarded it. Residents now fortifying homes, buying weapons for protection
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/cartels-targeting-homes/

DOJ Quietly Cuts Off Critical Services to Undocumented Communities Nationwide. Rescinded policy had protected access to shelters, food banks, and health clinics for two decades—nonprofits warn of widespread harm.
https://migrantinsider.com/p/doj-quietly-cuts-off-critical-services

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America. As Trump’s deportation gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. But that comes with its own dangers.
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-22-no-safe-place-for-legal-immigrants-trumps-america/

US appeals court allows Trump administration to remove deportation protections for Afghans, Cameroonians
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5413210-trump-admin-ends-afghan-cameroonian-tps/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump announces trade deal with Japan, 15% tariff on Japanese imports. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had reached a framework for a trade deal with Japan that will include a 15% tariff on imports from the island nation
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/financial-markets-rally-trump-tariff-deal-japan

Manufacturing Activity Sinks ‘Sharply’ as GM Blames Trump Tariffs for Profit Drop. Experts had expected a key manufacturing index number to tick upward, which makes the massive drop in July a significant and unpleasant surprise.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tariffs-manufacturing

Conservative group sues Trump, claims tariffs are a ‘presidential power grab that usurps Congress’ right’: A conservative legal group is suing the Trump administration in Texas over the president’s tariffs on Chinese imports, alleging that they were unilaterally imposed through an “unlawful” use of an obscure emergency executive power.
https://www.newsbreak.com/law-crime-520571/4125225856218-someone-gave-the-president-very-bad-legal-advice-conservative-group-sues-trump-claims-tariffs-are-a-presidential-power-grab-that-usurps-congress-right

Trump lowers Japan tariffs to 15% after reaching trade deal with ally. Trump previously threatened to impose a 24% tariff rate on Japanese imports in April and 25% in a letter earlier this month. The agreement comes shortly before Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline.
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-strikes-tariff-deal-with-japan-auto-stocks-surge-2025-07-23/

White House, Philippines make trade deal. U.S. exports to the Philippines will not face tariffs, Trump said.
https://apnews.com/article/marcos-trump-philippines-china-tariffs-3138d1d7f8368c022ab9242bebb4a2e2

# Education / Schools
Is Oklahoma Really Going to Interrogate Teachers From “Woke” States? Yes, Ryan Walters is a right-wing troll. No, you can’t afford to ignore him.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/oklahoma-woke-teacher-screenings-ryan-walters.html

Trump’s Mass Firings at Department of Education Are Already Harming US Students. Firing of 1,300 DOE workers is bad news for all student loan recipients and K-12 students alike.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5402571-education-department-trump-mcmahon-supreme-court/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / OSHA
Trump Labor Department Launches ‘Barrage of Attacks’ on Workers. “They’re showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration,” Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation told Common Dreams.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-labor-department-attacks-workers

Labor Department to cut workplace regulations and home healthcare minimum wage requirements
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3478183/labor-department-workplace-regulations-home-healthcare-minimum-wage/#google_vignette

Trump administration aims to roll back more than 60 workplace safety rules
https://www.fox9.com/news/trump-labor-deregulation-rules

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
UN Chief Says Nations Clinging to Fossil Fuels Are ‘Sabotaging’ Their Own Economies. “The clean energy future is no longer a promise. It’s a fact,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “No government, no industry, no special interest can stop it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/guterres-green-energy-transition

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Hunger Threatens to Plague “Golden Years” of Older Americans Due to Trump’s Cuts. Malnutrition and food insecurity are set to soar among vulnerable older populations due to aid cuts in Trump’s budget.
https://truthout.org/articles/hunger-threatens-to-plague-golden-years-of-older-americans-due-to-trumps-cuts/

# General News
Starbucks Denies Water To Black People In Sweltering Heat, This Time To A USPS Worker. A USPS worker in Texas passed out and died on a record-breaking 104 degree day.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/usps-driver-slams-starbucks-for-lack-of-humility/

New York City man charged with allegedly building, stashing IEDs around Manhattan. The DOJ claimed the suspect, Michael Gann, constructed and hid at least seven devices around the city, including at least five that were stored on the rooftops of residential buildings and one that was thrown onto subway tracks.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-man-charged-making-and-attempting-use-improvised-explosive-devices-manhattan

# General News / Floods
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/21/texas-hill-country-flooding-inaction-state-legislature/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Federal Judge Wants More Information Before Ruling On Releasing Epstein Testimony. A federal judge is seeking more information before he decides on the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein grand jury testimony.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5414135-epstein-maxwell-transcripts-judges/

Massie Picks Another Fight With Trump, This Time Over Epstein. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is sparring with President Donald Trump in a fight to unseal the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massie-fights-release-epstein-files-152343703.html

Watch Trump Admit He’s Attacking Obama to Distract From Epstein. Donald Trump was asked a simple question on the Jeffrey Epstein case. He began spiraling about Obama instead.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198217/trump-admit-obama-attack-distract-epstein

House GOP Has ‘Shut Down Congress’ to Avoid Voting on Epstein Files: “Who’s he gonna pick?” Republican Thomas Massie asked of Speaker Mike Johnson. “Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/jeffrey-epstein-house-republicans-vote-democrats

‘Donald certainly knew’: Trump biographer reveals new evidence of intimate ties to Epstein. “Epstein would often recount his experiences with women, hunting women, pursuing women, with Trump,” Wolff told Cohen. “Incuding, at one point, they shared a girlfriend for the better part of a year.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673534192/

Ghislaine Maxwell breaks Epstein silence and vows to ‘uncover truth’ with Donald Trump. Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has officially broken her silence from prison, saying that she and her lawyer were working with the federal government
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-breaks-epstein-silence-1283089

‘Pardon watch starts now’: Analysts smell ‘witness tampering’ as DOJ meets Epstein partner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrO6CudlXdA

‘Trying to take Trump down’: Adam Kinzinger suggests Trump’s biggest Epstein threat is JD Vance
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trying-to-take-trump-down-adam-kinzinger-suggests-trumps-biggest-epstein-threat-is-jd-vance/

Speaker Johnson Sends Congress Home Early to Avoid Vote on Epstein Files.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-jeffrey-epstein-trump-f2a03eca247268b14a9e38858338eded

Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5414628-democrats-hardball-epstein-files/

Never-Before-Seen Photos of Trump and Epstein Unearthed. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among limited archival footage reviewed, according to exclusive report
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/jeffrey-epstein-went-trumps-wedding-001441555.html

# Gov / Politics
Podcast: Trump’s Rage at Obama Explodes, Unnerving Experts: “We’re in Trouble”: Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard, put it very starkly, saying that authoritarianism is “right here in front of us.” He explains why “we’re in real trouble in the short term,” how Trump compares to other authoritarians around the globe, and why our only choices now are to fight the takeover or “accept that this is our future.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/198245/trump-rage-obama-explodes-unnerving-experts-were-trouble

‘Hell no, not on our watch’: Texas Democrat ready to break quorum to block redistricting. Leaders of Texas House Black Caucus are ready to do anything to stop it
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/texas-democrats-ready-anything-block-redistricting-20779102.php

‘This Was Treason’: Trump Says He Wants DOJ To Target Obama Over Alleged 2016 Election Plot. Donald Trump called for his Department of Justice to target Barack Obama over allegations he was part of a plot to subvert Trump’s 2016 victory.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/trump-epstein-urges-doj-obama-00467514

House panels subpoena ActBlue CEO for documents in probe. The chairmen of the House committees on Administration, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform requested that ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones provide the documents by Aug. 12
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/actblue-subpoena-house-gop-investigation-00424703

Speaker Johnson has ‘no concern’ about questioning Obama over Russia election interference hoax. “If it’s uncomfortable for him, he shouldn’t have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it appears to us has happened,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/speaker-johnson-has-no-concern-about-questioning-obama-over-russia-election

‘Weak attachment to democracy’: Former Presidents on both sides just united to blast Donald Trump
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trying-to-take-trump-down-adam-kinzinger-suggests-trumps-biggest-epstein-threat-is-jd-vance/

United States President Donald Trump has called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama, repeating unproven claims that the Democrat’s administration intentionally misled the public in its assessment of the 2016 election.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/donald-trump-accuses-barack-obama-of-treason-over-2016-election-claims

Obama Hits Back at Trump’s Treason Accusation: ‘Weak Attempt at Distraction’
https://time.com/7304820/trump-treason-obama-response-distraction-epstein-guilty-president-prosecution/

Republican Rep Randy Fine Says People In Gaza Can ‘Starve Away’ Until Hostages Are Released. Rep. Randy Fine took to X, endorsing that civilians should continue to starve in Gaza until the remaining hostages are released by Hamas.
https://www.aol.com/republican-rep-randy-fine-says-013101769.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Most ‘Minutely Designed and Controlled’ Since WWII. “This is preventable starvation,” said Alex de Waal. “It is entirely man-made.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/famine-expert-israel-s-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime. You think it can’t happen to you — until it does.
https://abc7ny.com/post/criminal-facial-recognition-racial-bias-in-technology-man-falsely-arrested-nijeer-parks/9197215/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Lawyer Gets Replaced as U.S. Attorney by Her Assistant
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyer-gets-replaced-as-us-attorney-by-her-assistant/

Judges reject Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s bid to serve as federal prosecutor. The Trump administration quickly acted to remove Habba’s replacement following a decision not to extend her term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/judges-reject-trump-lawyer-alina-habbas-bid-to-serve-as-federal-prosecutor

DOJ Staffer Suddenly Fired After 10 Years Says It Was ‘Retribution’ For Husband’s Anti-ICE App
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14927553/DOJ-Carolyn-Feinstein-fired-husband-anti-ICE-app.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Tyrus Walks Into The View, Delivers One Sentence That Freezes the Room—Minutes Later, ABC Pulls the Plug in Total Panic as Hot Mic Chaos Erupts, Hosts Melt Down Off-Camera, and the Entire Show Mysteriously Disappears Without a Trace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yur_JHBblLY

“You don’t want conversation. You want obedience. I’m not here to kneel for champagne liberals pretending to be oppressed.” That was the moment the room cracked. Tyrus didn’t just say it—he threw it like a grenade across The View’s table
https://hellotinhay.com/kieutrang/you-dont-want-conversation-you-want-obedience-im-not-here-to-kneel-for-champagne-liberals-pretending-to-be-oppressed-that-was-the-moment-the-room-cracked-tyrus/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLswO1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2ejlQeUtpclJOUm1tT1JoAR6IaQxaGhKg7_wa3MdCzo7CEE41kiuIoahqydYRnvwVqnKIDnYmHcH7PqDDJg_aem_nd46Co0NKIDJcPZqonuOGQ#goog_rewarded

Trump Sets His Sights on Two More TV Hosts as CBS Axes Stephen Colbert. Donald Trump is going to war with anyone in the media who dares criticize him.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198215/trump-two-more-tv-hosts-cbs-stephen-colbert

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium Increases. In around 90 days, millions of Americans will learn about out-of-pocket cost hikes of more than 75 percent on average.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-22-countdown-clock-begins-health-insurance-premium-increases/

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Space-Based Missile Interceptors For Golden Dome Being Tested By Northrop. Competition to supply parts of Golden Dome is heating up with Northrop Grumman stating they have begun ground testing orbital missiles.
https://www.twz.com/space/space-based-missile-interceptors-for-golden-dome-being-tested-by-northrop

Marines ordered home from immigration deployment to LA. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles more than five weeks ago to help quell immigration protests to return to their California duty station.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-07-21/marines-los-angeles-immigration-18508873.html

# Military / Global
Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat. Ukraine is frantically working to cope with increasing Russian Shahed-136 drone attacks that feature evolved tactics and capabilities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-scrambling-fight-against-growing-223006145.html

# NASA
Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA. A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency. Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674

# Social Services / Programs
Cuts to the Social Security Administration Threaten Millions of Americans’ Retirement and Disability Benefits. As the Social Security Administration cuts thousands of jobs and closes offices, families’ livelihoods are on the line.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/cuts-to-the-social-security-administration-threaten-millions-of-americans-retirement-and-disability-benefits/

# Sports
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
China-Backed Hackers Breach U.S. Nuclear Weapons Agency. China has denied any involvement in operations carried out by two cyber warfare groups, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, slamming the reports as “unfounded speculation.”
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/us-nuclear-agency-hit-microsoft-flaw-china

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant. Apple has made headlines in recent weeks for touting its commitment to privacy and human rights, rolling out tools to limit surveillance and spyware. But behind the corporate messaging lies a much darker reality.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘They’re human beings!’ Republicans cheering ICE raids change their tune behind the scenes
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mass-deportation-2673538227/

“We Were Kidnapped”: On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a mega prison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/we-were-kidnapped-prisoner-swap-venezuela-bukele-cecot-trump-ms13-deportation-el-salvador/

The plainclothes goon squad. The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/

How Mexican consulate staff struggle to defend migrants in the US while living on the brink of poverty themselves. Foreign Service employees are receiving the same salary as in 1998, getting by on subsidies, and coping with grueling workdays to deal with the surge in requests for help stemming from Trump’s deportation drive
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/mexican-consulate-staff-face-the-challenge-of-defending-migrants-in-the-us-while-living-on-the-brink-of-poverty-themselves.html

Two detained in NYC shooting of off-duty border patrol agent, DHS says. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the perpetrators were two unauthorized immigrants who had been arrested multiple times
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-random-robbery-nyc-park-rcna219905

Tom Homan on CBP shooting: Sanctuary cities are enabling criminals. Homan fed up after federal officer was shot by two migrants. ‘People put politics over public safety’ — border czar on shooting. Homan says ICE will ‘flood’ NYC after Adams’ invite
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-czar-homan-cbp-officer-shot-enough/

Noncriminal ICE arrests rose in Arkansas last month
https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2025/07/22/ice-arrests-non-criminal-arkansas-trump-quota

Noncriminal migrants arrested to curb crime, violence: ICE director. ICE Director says 70% of ‘noncriminal’ arrestees have pending charges. Agency defends arrests as crime prevention, cites violent incidents. Data shows sharp rise in noncriminal vs. criminal immigrant arrests
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/noncriminal-migrants-arrested-curb-crime-ice-director/

Immigrants at three Florida detention facilities have been deprived of critical medical care — including access to vital medications like insulin as well as timely treatments for life-threatening conditions. These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious abuses
https://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/you-feel-your-life-over-abusive-practices-three-florida-immigration-detention-centers-january-2025

Federal agencies sued for targeting migrants during court proceedings. Claiming the U.S. government violated constitutional and legal protections by detaining and deporting migrants during their court proceedings
https://san.com/cc/federal-agencies-sued-for-targeting-migrants-during-court-proceedings/

Migrants face degrading treatment at US detention centers: Immigrants in Florida detention centers face abuse, neglect, overcrowding. Report details poor medical care, degrading treatment, and rights violations in ICE facilities
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/hrw-immigrants-in-florida-detention-centers-face-abuse-neglect-overcrowding/3638257

Outrage Erupts After Honors Student Sara Lizeth Lopez Garcia Detained By ICE In New York. Lopez Garcia, 22, was taken from her home in Mastic, New York, alongside her mother and younger brother, despite reportedly being in the process of obtaining legal permanent residency. According to her fiancé, Santiago Ruiz Castilla, ICE agents admitted they were looking for someone else entirely.
https://shinemycrown.com/outrage-erupts-after-honors-student-sara-lizeth-lopez-garcia-detained-by-ice-in-new-york/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details. Judge rules Trump administration broke law in takedown of public funding tracker
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5411550-trump-administration-funding-tracker-judge/

CBO: ‘Big, beautiful bill’ will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficit by 2034. Republicans’ recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add trillions to the federal deficit and debt over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s final cost analysis.
https://thehill.com/business/5412262-biden-bill-adds-3-4-trillion-deficits/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response. Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fema-search-rescue-chief-resigns-224252589.html

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Scientists outraged as US cuts threaten food supply and farm workers: ‘Not just stupid, it’s evil.’ “Will doom us to decades or even hundreds of years more of exposure.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pfas-farm-research-funding-trump/

Warning on Popular Sugar Substitute.  Popular Sugar Substitute Linked to Brain Cell Damage
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-popular-sugar-substitute-linked-to-brain-cell-damage/

# General News
The Trump administration on Monday released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a pledge from President Trump despite some reluctance from the civil rights icon’s children.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5412414-historic-release-mlk-fbi-records/

Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/don-jr-eric-trump-secret-service-qatar-saudi-arabia-b2793080.html

# General News / Floods
Veterans come together in aftermath of Texas floods to support community, each other. Military veterans volunteer to help victims of the floods in Texas.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-21/texas-flood-veterans-18508510.html

Veteran-led nonprofit Team Rubicon mobilizes volunteers in Hill Country flood response. Team Rubicon has a network of more than 200,000 volunteers, who they call “grayshirts” — about 65% of which are either veterans or active-duty military. The nonprofit’s CEO, Art delaCruz, said the majority of the volunteers that assisted in the flood response were from Texas, including some volunteers local to Kerr County.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-07-16/veteran-led-nonprofit-team-rubicon-mobilizes-volunteers-in-hill-country-flood-response

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘That was a confession’: Ex-insider claims ‘crime happened’ with Trump and Epstein. Donald Trump’s former “trusted operative” on Sunday made the case that the president is indeed hiding something potentially criminal with his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-confession-trump-epstein-allegation/

DOJ officials to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein case to ask ‘what do you know?’ The move comes amid a schism in MAGA world over the late financier’s case
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-doj-ghislaine-maxwell-b2793679.html

In Her Own Words: Virginia Giuffre’s Handwritten Diary Claimed the FBI Had Hidden Camera Footage From Epstein’s Properties — in Bombshell That Contradicts Trump’s D.O.J. Memo
https://www.newsbreak.com/radaronline-561399/4122842625864-in-her-own-words-virginia-giuffre-s-handwritten-diary-claimed-the-fbi-had-hidden-camera-footage-from-epstein-s-properties-in-bombshell-that-contradicts-trump-s-d-o-j-memo

Trump Flips Out at Republican Lawmaker Exposing the Party on Epstein. “Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-flips-republican-lawmaker-exposing-134239453.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse. Dismantling the federal government, yanking support for poor and working-class Americans, and emboldening extremism have been among his accomplishments so far.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/six-months-in-trump-has-made-american-life-immeasurably-worse/

Too Many Failures To Count. President Donald Trump’s careless personnel decisions, slapdash executive orders, whiplash-inducing policy pivots, and general malevolence have combined to make this among the most disruptive yet least successful first six months of any presidency in American history.
https://www.newsweek.com/six-months-trump-has-too-many-failures-count-opinion-2099198

Trump stops deportation of U.S. military’s Afghan interpreters to Taliban, begins vetting for visas. Trump tasked Vance and Rubio to make an emergency intervention with United Arab Emirates, which agreed to keep the refugee Afghan interpreters and soldiers safe.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/trump-stops-deportation-us-militarys-afghan-interpreters-taliban-begins-vetting

This Is How Trump Turned the Presidency Into Pure Grift: Conservative commentator David Frum says Donald Trump’s use of the presidency for personal gain is like nothing else in American history. President Donald Trump’s shady financial dealings have turned his second term into a brazen moneymaking scheme,
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4123938732812-this-is-how-trump-turned-the-presidency-into-pure-grift-conservative

Trump Hosts US’s Oldest Pacific Ally Amid Tensions with China. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is staunchly pro-American and has made U.S. ties a priority since he was elected in 2022, replacing a predecessor who spurned the U.S. in favor of closer relations with China.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-philippines-trump-marcos-jr-trade-security-talks-china-2101710

Judge Warns Trump Is Turning Into Henry II With His Dangerous Rants. Donald Trump may not even know the power of his own words, a judge said.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198175/judge-warns-donald-trump-henry-ii-dangerous-rants
Henry II of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England

# Gov / Politics / Global
Thousands of Children Severely Malnourished in Gaza: 4 year old child dies of hunger in Gaza as aid blockade fuels catastrophe. Over 17,000 children face severe malnutrition amid Israel’s restrictions, hospitals overwhelmed
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/another-child-dies-of-hunger-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-fuels-catastrophe/3637003

25 nations slam Israel over “inhumane killing of civilians” in Gaza
https://www.yahoo.com/news/25-nations-slam-israel-over-160426044.html

Updates: Israel aid sites in starved Gaza a ‘sadistic death trap’ – UN
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/21/live-israel-pounds-gaza-as-palestinians-mourn-aid-seekers-killed-at-zikim

Iran Pivots from Russia to China in Quest for New Weapons After Israel War. China is emerging as top candidate to provide advanced weaponry that could help Tehran reestablish deterrence as tensions continue to simmer across the Middle East.
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-pivots-russia-china-quest-new-weapons-after-israel-war-2100933

Will China take the devastating step of invading Taiwan, and if so, when can we expect an invasion to happen?
https://www.globalguardian.com/global-digest/will-china-invade-taiwan

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Civil rights attorneys, Florida lawmaker call out officers after Black man struck during stop
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-attorneys-florida-lawmaker-153433035.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
DOJ Charges Man for Threatening People on the ‘Epstein Client List’—Which the DOJ Says Doesn’t Exist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-man-arrested-threatening-kill-epstein-client-list/story?id=123933077

Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/judge-gives-ex-officer-nearly-3-years-in-breonna-taylor-raid-rebuffs-doj-call-for-no-prison-time-00466606

# LGBTQ / Gender
LGBTQ+ organizers build community-led disaster response amid rising climate threats. As disasters grow more intense and frequent, LGBTQ+ leaders in New Orleans and beyond are developing grassroots networks to support vulnerable communities left out of mainstream emergency planning.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/lgbtq-organizers-build-community-led-disaster-response-amid-rising-climate-threats-2673535528.html?vgo_ee=78N4d5pM5vTMDj%2FFa5ePTc%2BtWnGuFgRmj23%2BOH509tFZEGiquee1dh5R8aw%3D%3A%2BNsuo4twWHW4iObC9lq1CoY34L5UmuLl

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Maddow Cracks Up at MAGA Bots ‘Melting Down’ on Epstein
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-cracks-maga-bots-melting-075236220.html

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy. Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to subsidize liberal media.
https://theconversation.com/pbs-and-npr-are-generally-unbiased-independent-of-government-propaganda-and-provide-key-benefits-to-us-democracy-261512

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
In the latest move by the Trump administration to root out government waste, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid plan to remove duplicative health insurance coverage from 2.8 million Americans improperly enrolled in taxpayer-funded healthcare plans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7c567aee-2b7d-4110-a1dd-3488bf4c837e.html

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
CDC says COVID-related emergency room visits climbing especially among young children
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cdc-says-covid-related-emergency-room-visits-climbing-especially-among-young-children/

GOP sen tells constituent he’s ‘not obligated to listen’ after she’s denied care over marital status. A 35-year-old pregnant mother in Tennessee reportedly became the first known case in the state of someone being refused prenatal care by a physician because she was unmarried
https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/tennessee-health-care/

Republicans stripping away health care from millions to Give Tax Cuts to Already Wealthy
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/senate-republicans-vote-to-take-away-medicaid-for-millions-to-give-tax-cuts-to-already-wealthy

RFK Jr orders changes for organ donation network as report finds dozens were not dead when harvested. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-orders-changes-organ-204941188.html

Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Who Keep Hospitals Afloat Want a Union. Unionization will lead to better and safer patient outcomes, says one medical resident.
https://truthout.org/articles/underpaid-overworked-medical-residents-who-keep-hospitals-afloat-want-a-union/#:~:text=Unionization%20will%20lead%20to%20better,outcomes%2C%20says%20one%20medical%20resident.&text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20Truthout,our%20work%20with%20a%20donation

Resident physicians largely in favor of unionization, citing low pay, long hours
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/resident-physicians-largely-favor-unionization-citing-low-pay-long-hours

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Ex-Air Force chief reveals shocking retaliation as he defies Trump effort to silence him. Frank Kendall wrote in the New York Times that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673534432/

Marines ordered home from immigration deployment to LA. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles more than five weeks ago to help quell immigration protests to return to their California duty station.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-07-21/marines-los-angeles-immigration-18508873.html

# Military / Global
Australian Abrams battle tanks arrive in Ukraine. The U.S.-built tanks, still painted in their AusCam camouflage scheme, had been loaded onto a commercial cargo ship in Geelong, Australia, in May 2025.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/07/21/australian-abrams-battle-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained. Talk about a brain teaser.
https://futurism.com/documents-ai-training-surge

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July 21, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘Broken promises with devastating consequences’: Abused immigrant youth sue Trump admin for abrupt cancellation of program that kept deportation off the table
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-about-face-on-protecting-abused-and-neglected-immigrant-youth-from-deportation/262678

‘What a ridiculous thing’: Adam Kinzinger unloads on Trump’s $250 scheme to make US ‘unvisitable.’
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/what-a-ridiculous-thing-adam-kinzinger-unloads-on-trumps-250-scheme-to-make-us-unvisitable/

Visa integrity fee: The new $250 charge visitors to US must pay under Trump scheme. Travellers may be able to have the fee reimbursed if they comply with visa conditions
https://www.the-independent.com/travel/news-and-advice/us-visa-integrity-fee-tourists-visitors-trump-b2792747.html

Illegal Accused Of Shooting, Attempting To Rob Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent In Moped Ambush. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released video of an incident during which a Border Patrol agent was shot in the face by an illegal immigrant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkfAl-stL5c

New Helpline Aims to Disrupt the ‘Prison-to-ICE Deportation Pipeline.’ It is designed to help incarcerated people who are vulnerable to being transferred by ICE following their release.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-helpline-aims-to-disrupt-the-prison-to-ice-deportation-pipeline/

By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators. The masked, plainclothes ICE agents terrorizing immigrant communities are indistinguishable from racist vigilantes.
https://truthout.org/articles/by-refusing-to-show-faces-or-badges-ice-opens-door-to-vigilante-impersonators/

ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons issued a fresh reminder for those in the US illegally, in addition to sounding the alarm on companies hiring undocumented employees.
https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/ice-agents-will-arrest-anyone-they-find-in-the-country-says-us-immigration-chief/3921236/

Kristi Noem says other unnamed states are in the process of building Alligator Alcatraz-style facilities
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-kristi-noem-detention-b2791655.html

Nonprofit sues US government over construction of new ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility: ‘America’s worst idea’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alligator-alcatraz-detention-facility-florida/

Detainees sue Trump administration over conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project and lead counsel in the case, said, “We brought this lawsuit in order to challenge the total lack of attorney client access at the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility.”
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/07/17/detainees-sue-trump-administration-over-conditions-at-alligator-alcatraz/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Businesses are already passing the cost of tariffs onto consumers, Federal Reserve survey finds
https://thehill.com/business/5406292-businesses-tariff-costs-consumers/

# Children / Youth
Child found dead after father reported abduction in New York. Police said Melina Frattolin was reported abducted around 9:40 p.m. on July 19, according to local reports
https://abc7.com/post/imminent-danger-amber-alert-issued-kidnapped-9-year-old-girl-upstate-new-york/17214684/#:~:text=A%209%2Dyear%2Dold%20Canadian,dad’s%20story%2C%20according%20to%20authorities
Also: Luciano Frattolin, 45, was arrested early Monday and charged with murder in the second degree and concealment of a human corpse. Luciano Frattolin was booked early Monday at the Essex County jail
https://www.foxnews.com/us/canadian-father-arrested-new-york-after-missing-9-year-old-daughter-found-dead-lake-george-area

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
While Trump’s trade guy was testifying before Congress, the man himself nuked the entire conversation dropping a tariff bomb on X (Twitter) mid-hearing. One rep actually blurted out: “W*F. Who’s in charge?” Answer: Trump is. Trump doesn’t follow the rules. He rewrites the playbook.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-navarro-trade-counsel-trump/

Democrats seek federal ban on price gouging amid tariff rollout. Democrats are pushing a bill prohibiting price gouging at the federal level and giving the Federal Trade Commission another $1 billion and new tools to go after companies charging “grossly excessive” prices.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2049fa1e-fc54-462c-917c-e32bd805e2dd.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US DOI ends “preferential treatment” for wind and solar energy. This decision is in line with President Trump’s Energy Dominance agenda and follows Executive Order 14315 and the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
https://www.power-technology.com/news/us-doi-ends-preferential-treatment-wind-solar-energy/

Global dispute deepens over deep sea mining as nations weigh science, sovereignty, and the ocean floor
https://www.ehn.org/global-dispute-deepens-over-deep-sea-mining-as-nations-weigh-science-sovereignty-and-the-ocean-floor

Exploring plausible future scenarios of deep seabed mining in international waters. The global transition to renewable energy has intensified the demand for critical minerals, which are essential components in key green technologies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811625000151

Environmental risk weighs heavily on the possible rewards of deep-sea mining.  In March, the White House issued an executive order promoting mining generally and, in April, followed with a second order to fast-track deep sea permitting and circumvent multilateral regulations of the practice.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/environmental-risk-weighs-heavily-on-the-possible-rewards-of-deep-sea-mining/#:~:text=Environmental%20risk%20weighs%20heavily%20on%20the%20possible%20rewards%20of%20deep%20sea%20mining,-By%20William%20Yancey&text=Many%20industry%20stakeholders%20and%20policymakers,clean%20energy%20and%20defense%20technologies

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump administration delays toxic coal ash cleanup and eases pollution rules for industry: EPA Seeks to Delay Monitoring and Clean up Requirements for Toxic Coal Ash, Adopting the Wishes of the Coal Power Industry. Across the U.S., coal ash dump sites leak dangerous levels of toxic pollutants, contaminating water and threatening health
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/epa-seeks-to-delay-monitoring-and-clean-up-requirements-for-toxic-coal-ash-adopting-the-wishes-of-the-coal-power-industry

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Thanks to Congress, Puerto Ricans Will Struggle Even More to Feed Their Families. The island imports more than 80 percent of its food, and residents already face rising prices and supply chain issues.
https://truthout.org/articles/thanks-to-congress-puerto-ricans-will-struggle-even-more-to-feed-their-families/

High prices, blackouts and half the money: Inside Puerto Rico’s stagnant food aid system. Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/puerto-rico-food-aid-nap-congress-frozen/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘My highest, ever’: Donald Trump proudly announces defending Jeffrey Epstein improved his popularity
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/my-highest-ever-donald-trump-proudly-announces-defending-jeffrey-epstein-improved-his-popularity/

Epstein victim urged FBI to look at Trump, twice. Miss Farmer claimed she was troubled by 1995 incident allegedly involving US president
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/07/21/epstein-victim-trump-fbi/

# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Just Deployed a Robotic Guard Dog… But That’s Just the Beginning. The Secret Service had also highlighted the robots’ abilities in a video shared from July’s 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. A Secret Service official explains that the units are part of its “ASTRO” program, which stands for “Autonomous Systems and Technical Robotic Operation.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/robotic-dogs-mar-a-lago-tump/

‘Reeks of regret’: Republicans suffering ‘remorse and shame’ over ‘grudgingly’ obeying Trump
https://www.alternet.org/murkowski-trump-hawley/

Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned. The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris. Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous – and ever more so by the day.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president

Trump is imitating a notorious president he truly admires,  Richard M. Nixon — by adopting what became known during the Watergate scandal as the “modified limited hangout.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-nixon-2673534369/

8 historical figures Trump has invoked over the years
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4694274-8-historical-figures-trump-has-invoked-over-the-years/

Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book. Excerpt from Jim Sciutto’s ‘The Return of Great Powers’ shares insight into former, and would-be, US president’s desire to emulate the ‘tough guy’ authoritarians he looks up to
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-admires-hitler-is-infatuated-with-putin-former-staff-claim-in-new-book/

House Dems Begin To Take Credit For Provisions In Trump-Backed Law They Voted Against
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/19/house-democrats-credit-provisions-big-beautiful-bill-trump/

Trump’s War on Iran Killed Any Shot at Dialogue With North Korea. Trump’s strikes on Iran may show North Korea that US diplomacy is masking its real strategy of coercion or aggression. Trump’s strikes on Iran may show North Korea that US diplomacy is masking its real strategy of coercion or aggression.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-war-on-iran-killed-any-shot-at-dialogue-with-north-korea/

Congress to Consider Bills That Would Gut Oversight of US Arms Sales. If passed, the bills would reduce vetting of future sales in the name of speeding up the process.
https://us.transparency.org/news/house-approves-limits-to-key-anti-corruption-checks-on-u-s-arms-sales/

She left her federal job because of Trump. Now she’s running for office to fight his policies. Evans is among what some Democratic groups identify as a growing trend: Former federal officials alienated by Trump’s remaking of the federal government deciding to run for office themselves. Those groups are actively recruiting current federal employees as well as those who were fired or left voluntarily, betting that they will make good messengers against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/she-left-her-federal-job-100041404.html

Trump keeps brutalizing immigrants because he’s failing at everything else. The Trump administration is busy producing smoke and mirrors to pacify its Republican base by targeting immigrants while failing to improve the lives of the working class.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Shot in the head, as if executed’: Four days of violence end with hundreds dead in southern Syria. Sectarian divisions prompted the worst unrest in Syria since March as the Druze population of Sweida province suffered massacres and executions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/18/its-impossible-to-tell-who-is-killing-us-four-days-of-violence-end-with-hundreds-dead-in-southern-syria

Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders. There was new alarm as Israel’s military issued evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, one of the few areas where it has rarely operated with ground troops and where many international organizations trying to distribute aid are located.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-07-20-2025-2b494af89d710793bc6933f5ae437566

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Texas prisons are still sweltering without AC and no clear fix in sight. Despite receiving substantial state funding to air-condition prisons in the last few years, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has stayed mum on when it will install cooling across the system.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/texas-prison-ac-progress-slow-most-lack-cooling/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major Housing Discrimination Cases. Three cases allege that local governments clustered polluting industrial facilities in minority neighborhoods.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Alan Dershowitz said he could be called as a witness in Donald Trump’s suit against the Wall Street Journal, adding that he can help “prove malice” in the case.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/20/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-wall-street-journal-report-epstein-malice/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
‘This was no accident’: Trump blamed as health insurers prep to jack up premiums. An analysis released Friday by the health policy research organization KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare found that across a sample of more than 105 ACA marketplace insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia, companies are set to increase premiums by a median of 15%.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-insurance/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.21.2025_11.43am

‘Extra Cruel’: Trump Admin Ends Job Program for Seniors as Work Requirements Loom. “Many of our participants are living on the edge of poverty,” said the head of one organization impacted by the termination of the Senior Community Service Employment Program.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senior-job-training-program?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=829f7655e2-Weekend+Edition%3A+Sun.+7%2F13%2F25_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600473715

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Report: Some medical schools still racially discriminate in admissions. American medical schools may still be participating in racial discrimination in their admissions even after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action is illegal, a recent report showed.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7b330046-cb64-463d-811f-5e84fbdfdee1.html

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Cancer experts alarmed over ‘gut-wrenching’ Trump plan to cut research spending by billions. More people will die due to White House’s plans to slash nearly $2.7bn from National Cancer Institute, workers warn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/cancer-research-trump-nci-cuts-plan

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Defense: Why is Trump purging the Pentagon? Trump fires a half-dozen top military leaders:  It’s the next step in his pursuit of total power. After capturing the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the Pentagon is “the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government.” With “his generals” in charge, Trump can start building a military that is loyal to him—and not to the Constitution. “It is praetorianism, plain and simple.”
https://theweek.com/politics/trump-purging-pentagon

Another Hegseth aide exits as Pentagon churn continues: Another senior aide of US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth is quitting the Pentagon, making him the sixth top official to exit in Hegseth’s first six months in the Department of Defence.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/united-states/another-hegseth-aide-exits-pentagon-sixth-top-official-departure-in-first-6-months-13909290.html

# Military / Global
Israeli tanks ‘open fire into crowd trying to get food from aid trucks in Gaza killing dozens’ as IDF launches probe. Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacre
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/gaza-israel-palestinians-killed-idf-fires-on-crowds

# Security / DHS / Surveillance / Cybersecurity / Spyware
National security elites accept Trump is creating a new world order. The U.S. president has revamped trade, aid and military force to an extent that attendees here say will have effects for decades to come.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/aspen-forum-attendees-admit-theres-no-return-to-a-pre-trump-world-order-00464338?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru

# Social Services / Programs
Social Security benefits are already being clawed back from retirees across the country.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/

Social Security ‘Clawback’ Change Could Bankrupt Seniors
https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/social-security-clawback-change-could-bankrupt-seniors

# Solar Activity
June 10, 2025, is the midpoint between the April 8, 2024, and August 12, 2026, total solar eclipses. It’s 429 days after the 2024 eclipse and 429 days before the 2026 eclipse. The 2026 eclipse will be visible in Greenland, Iceland, and Spain
https://www.space.com/stargazing/solar-eclipses/were-halfway-between-the-april-2024-and-august-2026-total-solar-eclipses-heres-why-were-excited

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July 19, 2025
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Drones apprehend people coming to the border. Customs and Border Protection has used drones since 2005. Relying on unmanned aircraft to help law enforcement track migrant criminals and cartel traffickers remains a sophisticated technological operation that requires constant upgrading.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/drones-apprehend-people-border/

Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration. Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-call-for-shutdown-of-immigrant-jails-as-trump-expands-incarceration/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
‘Betrayal’: Rural red state farmers turn on Trump after he targets major industries
https://www.alternet.org/trump-farmers-2673370514/

Rubio announces 10 Americans detained in Venezuela are ‘on their way to freedom’: It is not clear when the Americans are expected to land back on U.S. soil, but Bukele stated that the released prisoners are on their way to El Salvador, where they will make a short stop before being sent on to their final destinations.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/venezuela-prisoner-swap-el-salvador

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Stands to Profit as He Signs Crypto Legislation. The president signed the GENIUS Act, which would establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin, but critics have raised concerns over conflicts of interest.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-stands-to-profit-as-he-signs-crypto-legislation/

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists. A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-direct-file-chopping-block/

# Education / Schools
The Trump Admin Quietly Made Attending College Even More Expensive
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-big-bill-student-loans_n_687a9e24e4b06b3f48ab0f1e

Facing Growing Outrage and Legal Action, Trump Admin Frees Chunk of Withheld Education Funds. “He’s still illegally withholding $5.5 billion more from schools,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Congress passed it. The president signed it. Trump must release it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-releases-frozen-education-funds

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump Hails $90 Billion in Corporate Investment to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, Fueled by Natural Gas
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072025/trump-hails-pennsylvania-ai-investment-fueled-by-natural-gas/

Analysts Expect More Oil and Gas Mergers. What Could That Mean for the Climate?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/oil-and-gas-mergers-bp-shell/

Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm. The talks, in Jamaica, are before the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the only organization that can legally approve mining in ocean areas beyond countries’ national jurisdictions
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/deep-sea-mining-negotiations-resume-amid-industry-pushback/

EPA tries to stop closure of Colorado coal plants after meeting with Colorado Springs utilities. Environmentalists lamented the agency’s decision, Colorado officials said it would have little impact on planned shutdown of coal plants.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/18/epa-colorado-coal-fired-power-plants-extension/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump Eases Pollution Rules for 100+ Facilities, Including Chemical and Coal Plants: “Trump is illegally delaying clean air laws from his desk because polluters make more money when they just dump their toxic chemicals in our air,” said one critic.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-eases-industrial-pollution-limits/

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-trump-reorganization-science-research-acf0ad3a649f940e138b2a917169405f

Just Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide: We computed the plastic mass that the top three fast moving consumer good beverage companies (Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé) produced from 2000 to 2023: 138 ± 12 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic, of which 14–21.1 (± 2.2 MMT) (10–15%) were projected to have turned into aquatic pollution.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/just-five-companies-produce-nearly-25-percent-all-plastic-waste-worldwide

Mass butterfly die off linked to insecticide use. “On average, each monarch butterfly contained 7 pesticides.”
https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2025/07/mass-kill-of-monarch-butterflies-in-california-linked-to-pesticide-residues-in-their-bodies/

Prominent Everglades Scientist Prepares for Jail Amid Bitter Legal Dispute with Former Employer. Tom Van Lent is accused of stealing “trade secrets” from the influential Everglades Foundation. He says the foundation has mounted a politically motivated smear campaign.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/everglades-scientist-tom-van-lent-prepares-for-jail/#:~:text=Van%20Lent’s%20legal%20troubles%20began,according%20to%20the%20initial%20filing.

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
The Trump administration canceled a FEMA program that could have protected Hillsborough from Chantal flooding. The Trump administration canceled a FEMA program in April that would have funded upgrades to protect the town from flooding. Then the Eno River rose more than 20 feet.
https://www.theassemblync.com/environment/chantal-hillsborough-trump-fema-bric/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
FBI agents ‘told to flag records’ in Epstein files that mentioned Trump: senator
https://time.com/7303673/donald-trump-epstein-files-fbi-durbin/

‘Infuriated’: How Trump ‘berated’ Murdoch and WSJ editor in attempt to kill Epstein story
https://www.alternet.org/trump-murdoch-epstein/

Epstein case ‘a matter of public concern’, Pam Bondi says in motion to unseal grand jury transcripts – US politics live. Officials ask judge to release documents shortly after president files libel suit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Murdoch and two Wall Street journal reporters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/18/donald-trump-epstein-files-wsj-birthright-citizenship-cryptocurrency-us-politics-live-news-updates

Trump sues after Wall Street Journal’s Epstein story
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5409336-trump-lawsuit-wsj-letter-jeffrey-epstein/

Ghislaine Maxwell should testify before Congress: Dershowitz
https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/ghislaine-maxwell-testify-congress-dershowitz/

Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’: The tapes also offer unusual insight into the friendship of two wealthy, powerful men who frequently went out on the town together, prowling for women in New York and Atlantic City.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf

# General News
‘Replace the people that failed us.’ Former Kerr Co. IT official calls for change after flood alert delay. John David Trolinger said he held that post for 15 years and retired in 2019. In a phone interview this week with KXAN Investigators, he called delays in issuing notifications to cellphones in the area “incompetence” and “a leadership failure.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/replace-people-failed-us-former-212801695.html

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Just Deployed a Robotic Guard Dog… But That’s Just the Beginning. Donald Trump’s security has just gone high-tech! The former president has deployed a robotic dog to patrol Mar-a-Lago, complete with advanced sensors and surveillance tech.
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/robotic-dog-now-patrolling-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-in-florida-here-s-why-11731165423605.html

# Gov / Politics
Busted: Trump topples his own claim that he doesn’t ‘draw pictures,’ only he does, and his images have sold for thousands of dollars, according to the Times.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-drawing-epstein/

50+ Dems Slam Rubio Plan to Burn 500 Metric Tons of Emergency Food Aid. “This action is not only morally indefensible, but also wasteful, strategically shortsighted, and completely counter to the entirety of your work while in the Senate.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/usaid-to-destroy-500-metric-tons-of-food

‘Absolute clown show’: GOP strategist slams Trump for becoming ‘the swamp’ he once condemned. 2016 wasn’t Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign. Trump first ran for president with the Reform Party in 2000, and longtime ally Roger Stone served as his campaign director. The campaign never really caught fire, however, and Trump dropped out of the race by February of that year.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/absolute-clown-show-gop-strategist-slams-trump-for-becoming-the-swamp-he-once-condemned/ar-AA1IR4DH

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Nazi who became a CIA-backed drug lord. Barbie was reportedly recruited by the CIA. His role in aiding drug cartels was allegedly part of a broader U.S. effort to prevent leftist regimes from taking power in Bolivia, as had happened in Cuba, by bolstering military dictatorships.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sythl0xbgg

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
This jaw-dropping truth about the Supreme Court will make you furious
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/this-jaw-dropping-truth-about-the-supreme-court-will-make-you-furious/

At least 20 injured in Los Angeles after car drives into crowd
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/los-angeles-car-drives-into-crowd-injuring-several/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump, a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief
https://theconversation.com/abcs-and-cbss-settlements-with-trump-are-a-dangerous-step-toward-the-commander-in-chief-becoming-the-editor-in-chief-261006

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Republicans now own America’s broken health care system
https://www.vox.com/health-care/418431/big-beautiful-bill-lose-medicaid-trump

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Eight Healthy Babies Born From Three-Parent IVF. Treatment that aims to stop the passing down of defective mitochondria shows early promise
https://www.science.org/content/article/babies-born-three-parent-ivf-look-healthy-so-far-new-study-finds

# Medical Recalls
Cholesterol and Heart Drug Recalled: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed the recall of tens of thousands of bottles of Brand names such as Livalo and Zypitamag, a medication prescribed to treat high cholesterol. According to the FDA’s report, the drug was recalled due to “Failed Impurities/Degradation Specifications.”
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/generic-drugs-medications-recall-april-2025.html

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border. Transferring control of federal lands to the Department of Defense enables the administration to use the military for domestic law enforcement, an activity which would otherwise be unlawful under the Posse Comitatus Act, according to several legal scholars.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-border-military-assistance/

‘Wolf Pack’ Of Modular Mini Cruise Missiles Unveiled By L3Harris. L3Harris is the third company just this week to make an announcement about cheaper stand-off munitions that can be produced quickly at scale.
https://www.twz.com/air/wolf-pack-of-modular-mini-cruise-missiles-unveiled-by-l3harris

Army Puts $43M Bet On Next Gen Leonidas High Power Microwave Counter Drone Tech. Epirus’ CEO says successful tests of the company’s Gen II system capable of rapidly taking down swarms of drones could lead to an official program of record.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/4115929358129-army-puts-43m-bet-on-next-gen-leonidas-high-power-microwave-counter-drone-tech

Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds. A study of defense department spending previewed shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to private firms in what was described as a ‘continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/pentagon-military-spending

# NOAA / Weather
We’re Only Seeing the Beginning of the Texas Floods’ Deadly Toll. July has been the month of the flash flood. The floods in Texas were particularly devastating: more than 130 deaths, 101 people still missing, and an estimated $18 billion to $22 billion in damage. Those were followed by floods in North Carolina, New Mexico, Chicago, and New York. More are forecast for the coming week, including in areas already hard-hit.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/texas-floods-death-toll-rising-drowning-disease.html?pay=1752884595159&support_journalism=please

# Pharmaceuticals
‘Devastating’ Trump Cuts to FDA, NIH Will Result in Fewer Medications, New Analysis Warns. “The United States’ effort to bring cutting-edge treatments to patients,” said a group of lawmakers, “will come to a grinding halt because of the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to NIH and FDA funding.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/budget-cuts-nih

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Another Trump Sellout to China and Big Tech. The administration reverses long-standing controls on sales of advanced AI chips to Beijing. AI, love it or hate it, will be the mother technology of the future, driving other technologies—and a key element of the scientific and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and China.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-07-18-another-trump-sellout-china-big-tech-nvidia/

Data Collection Can Be Effective AND Legal. Technology already available, and already demonstrated to be effective, makes it possible for law-abiding officials, together with experienced technical people to create a highly efficient system in which both security and privacy can be assured.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/07/vips-data-collection-can-be-effective-and-legal/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
From Street-Level Hackers to State-Backed Spies, What the Rise of China’s “Honkers” Tells Us About Cyber Power
https://www.thehackacademy.com/column/from-street-level-hackers-to-state-backed-spies-what-the-rise-of-chinas-honkers-tells-us-about-cyber-power/

# Transportation
Bo’s Turbo Escooter Can Go Over 100 MPH—and Could Set a Record. Bo plans to break 100 miles per hour on its nearly $30,000 Turbo scooter with an injection of Formula One expertise. It’s inspired by Williams F1 technology and aims to set a Guinness World Record.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/18/100-mph-while-standing-bo-blows-way-past-electric-scooter-limits/

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE Dramatically Ramps Up Noncriminal Arrests After Trump’s Demands. Newly obtained federal records offer the clearest picture yet of how aggressively the Trump administration has pursued its mass deportation agenda — with a sixfold increase in arrests in early June.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/ice-migrant-arrests-trump-administration-deportations-data/

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-arrests-federal-courthouses-sacramento-san-francisco-diego-denver-immigration-hearings-arrests-volunteer-observers/

Alligator Alcatraz guards, detainees say conditions are deteriorating
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/17/alligator-alcatraz-guards-detainees-say-conditions-are-deteriorating/

DeSantis under fire for using disaster funds to build migrant detention jail. Analysis of $20m spent on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ shows some contracts went to governor’s donors or allies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/ron-desantis-disaster-funds-alligator-alcatraz

DeSantis’ concentration camp stunt is source of more cruelty, chaos. Migrants have become political footballs in the cynical political calculus
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/16/desantis-concentration-camp-stunt-is-source-of-more-cruelty-chaos/

Disabled army veteran and US citizen detained in California ICE raid on farm released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDELoIdR4eQ

Feds prep for reopening of Alcatraz prison. Critics call it the ‘stupidest initiative yet’: “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law, which takes food from children and rips health care from millions to give tax breaks to billionaires,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement
https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-prep-reopening-alcatraz-prison-201101206.html

ICE is now richer than most of world’s militaries thanks to Trump’s new funding. ICE’s annual budget increased from $8.7 billion to $27.7 billion
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-funding-world-militaries-b2790466.html

How ICE Is Outsourcing Mass Deportations: Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions by aiding ICE’s mass deportations — and now that the Trump administration’s megabill has granted ICE a multi-billion-dollar windfall, they are lining up for an even bigger cut.
https://www.levernews.com/how-ice-is-outsourcing-mass-deportations/

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data. A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-access-medicaid-data/

ICE says migrants are ineligible for bail hearings which could leave them in jail for years while courts hearings play out
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-migrant-bail-hearings-b2789334.html

MAGA Republican Says He Doesn’t Care If ICE Detains U.S. Citizens
https://newrepublic.com/post/198045/maga-republicans-ice-detains-us-citizens

Migrants Seeking Self-Deportation Say CBP App Leaves Them Stranded: ‘They Took My Documents at the Border’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/migrants-seeking-self-deportation-say-cbp-app-leaves-them-stranded-they-took-my-documents-at-the-border/ar-AA1IO0y9

I was once an ICE prosecutor. What I see now in immigration courts is disturbing. Each day, ICE raises the stakes –– even targeting Americans who dare to show solidarity.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5404863-i-was-once-an-ice-prosecutor-what-i-see-now-in-immigration-courts-is-disturbing/

Oregon Preschool Sent Into Lockdown After ICE Arrests Father During Morning Drop Off
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/oregon-ice-arrests-outside-preschool

Some GOP members want protections for undocumented farm workers. The Trump administration’s “no amnesty” policy for undocumented farm workers is being met with pushback from some GOP members.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/gop-farm-workers-undocumented-no-amnesty/

Woman With Leukemia Trapped in ICE Detention Center for 5 Months Without Treatment — Partner Fears She Won’t Make It Out Alive
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4114291257843-woman-with-leukemia-trapped-in-ice-detention-center-for-5-months-without-treatment-partner-fears-she-won-t-make-it-out-alive

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Republicans intensified their efforts to target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda.
https://apnews.com/article/pbs-npr-budget-cuts-trump-republicans-b0044285659ab708e23eb2dc2f3eabfa

# Education / Schools
Trump’s Homeland Security Agents now just doing ICE’s dirty work, targeting pro-Palestinian academics
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/trumps-homeland-security-agents-now-just-doing-ices-dirty-work-targeting-pro-palestinian-academics/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / # OSHA
OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life. A New York University analysis of HUD data concludes that the two-year cap would force 1.4 million households — predominantly working families with children—out of subsidized housing, leading to widespread evictions and upheaval, per the report.
https://www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4114822479705-so-disrespectful-this-trump-proposal-could-throw-1-4-million-people-out-of-their-homes

Trump administration weakens OSHA penalties and inspections, raising risks for U.S. workers. A new U.S. Department of Labor policy cuts workplace safety inspections and lowers fines for small and first-time offending businesses, drawing criticism from experts who warn it will lead to more job-related deaths and illnesses.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/trumps-osha-slashes-fines-for-worker-safety-violations/

US Department of Labor updates penalty guidelines to support small businesses and eliminate workplace hazards
https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/osha-national-news-release/20250714

USPS worker denied water at Starbucks in 100-degree heat: Starbucks faces backlash after USPS worker denied free water after delivering package In 100-degree heat, one month after mail carrier dies while working in high temps
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/16/starbucks-faces-backlash/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump officials quietly tighten control over renewable energy projects on public lands
https://www.ehn.org/trump-officials-quietly-tighten-control-over-renewable-energy-projects-on-public-lands

Wall Street firms move to buy electric utilities as data centers drive energy demand. Consumer groups say proposals by BlackRock and Blackstone to buy energy companies in Minnesota, New Mexico and Texas could hurt residents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/energy-environment/blackrock-minnesota-power.html

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Pacific Rim Volcano Surge: Geologists Issue Stark Alerts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-Mv40QTEc

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
How Trump’s big bill devastates the US food system
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-snap-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-food-aid-snap-farm-bill-agricultural-subsidies/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘It was his best friend’: Ex-Trump Casino boss reveals president brought Epstein and teen girl to gaming floor. White House is calling his story “fabricated”
https://people.com/ex-casino-boss-claims-trump-epstein-brought-underage-girls-casino-floor-11774374

‘This Thing Is Moving’: Democrats Reportedly Have the Votes to Force Epstein Files Release. White House has come under fire for not releasing documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-jeffrey-epstein-files-release

Trump asks Bondi to release Epstein grand jury testimony. Pam Bondi responded, saying they are ready to do so tomorrow. Trump said the Epstein files have received ‘a ridiculous amount of publicity.’ The DOJ announced its ‘exhaustive review’ of the files on July 7
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-asks-bondi-to-release-epstein-grand-jury-testimony/

WSJ says Trump wrote racy birthday letter to Epstein. The president says it never happened. The report comes amid heightened scrutiny of his relationship with the accused sex trafficker.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/trump-epstein-wall-street-journal-00461787

Donald Trump Bombshell: President Is Named in the Jeffrey Epstein Files, His Former Chief of Staff Claims
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ex-chief-staff-makes-161542379.html

The Trump Administration Reportedly Has Extensive Logs of Epstein Money Transfers, Refuses to Release Them
https://thehill.com/homenews/5407262-epstein-financial-records-wyden-trump/

# General News
US State Department draws criticism for shutting office that brings home deceased diplomats. State Department says duties of OCA have been transferred. Democrats, former diplomats say Trump’s layoffs undercut U.S. diplomacy. The closure comes amid the death of a U.S. official abroad
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-department-draws-criticism-shutting-office-that-brings-home-deceased-2025-07-17/

# Gov / Politics
Donald Trump seems to be planning the biggest election-rigging scheme ever seen in America, Analyst warns
https://www.rawstory.com/gerrymandering-texas/

Attorney General Pam Bondi Claims Trump Has Constitutional Authority To Nullify Laws In Newly Revealed Letters. In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html

Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn’t allowed to have. It’s called the “dispensing power.” It was an old prerogative of English kings, one in which they could simply assert that the law doesn’t apply to their friends (a power not limited to foreign affairs
https://www.vox.com/politics/419393/trump-tik-tok-letters-dispensing-power-king

Far-Right Influencer Brands MAGA the ‘Biggest Scam in History’ Following Trump’s Push to Move On From Epstein: ‘The Liberals Were Right’
https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-influencer-denounces-trump-epstein-liberals-were-right-2100489

Peter Welch calls for resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
https://www.wcax.com/video/2025/07/16/peter-welch-calls-resignation-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem/

Prominent Democrat calls for mental health examination for Trump after he forgets key appointment
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/prominent-democrat-calls-mental-health-35572424

Senate Democrats warn Trump’s foreign policy is fueling China’s rise and weakening U.S. global power. Sentiment towards the US is deteriorating even among Washington’s closest allies, according to Pew survey data
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/us-losing-ground-to-china-due-to-trumps-policies-democrats-warn

Trump Confesses to Bribing Congress Members
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-brags-about-illegally-bribing-gop-congressman-vote-big-beautiful-bill-i-did-him-587059

Gavin Newsom’s Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually. The California governor is threatening to make a controversial tit-for-tat response if Texas Republicans redraw their state’s district maps to boost the GOP’s numbers in Congress.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198094/gavin-newsom-right-gerrymandering-trump

Urban League declares a ‘state of emergency’ for civil rights in the US in response to Trump
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/national-urban-league-declares-state-of-emergency-for-civil-rights-in-the-u-s-under-trump

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
White Man Punched 11-Year-Old Black Boy in the Face, Then Hurled Racial Slurs For Speaking To White Children Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison. “The toughest part about this is that my son was doing nothing. Nothing wrong. And was attacked. Attacked because of his skin color,” the 11-year-old father’s said.
https://people.com/white-man-randomly-punched-11-year-old-black-boy-in-the-face-then-hurled-racial-slurs-11773904

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Mexico set to be torn apart as El Chapo’s son prepares to tell US prosecutors ‘everything he knows.’ One of the world’s most notorious drug cartel leaders could very well destabilize the Mexico government as he plans to reveal all he knows about corrupt officials.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/4112590054523-mexico-set-to-be-torn-apart-as-el-chapo-s-son-prepares-to-tell-us-prosecutors-everything-he-knows

Federal judge destroys ICE’s lies about military-style raids, calls out Trump administration’s constitutional violations
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/federal-judge-destroys-ices-lies-about-military-style-raids-calls-out-trump-administrations-constitutional-violations/

Maurene Comey sends warning to colleagues about Trump administration after being fired from DOJ, warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/maurene-comey-letter-firing-00459560

Supreme Court has become ‘willing accomplices’ to Trump’s ‘lawlessness’: expert
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673290681/

The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real. The Roberts court majority seems bound and determined to undermine the American constitutional order.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198007/supreme-court-education-department-trump

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Medicaid Cuts? Yes. But the GOP Is Quietly Cutting Medicare, Too. A little understood aspect of the big, ugly bill could cause devastating problems for seniors and others.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197992/republican-trump-budget-bill-cuts-medicare-too

Democratic attorneys general sue Trump administration to block ObamaCare changes
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-block-hhs-changes-aca-health-insurance-2025-07-17/

The US House Passed Terrible Medicaid and SNAP. US House passed their “mega-bill” with Medicaid and SNAP cuts that will take health care and food away from millions of Americans. The bill passed on a near party-line vote of 215-214. Among the Texas delegation in Congress, all Republicans voted for it, and all Democrats voted against it.
https://txchildren.org/the-us-house-passed-terrible-medicaid-and-snap-cuts-last-night/

Inside the Fight to Save SNAP and Medicaid. A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill before they are implemented.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-fight-save-snap-medicaid-100000584.html

# Medical // Global
Cartels Are Taking Over Emergency Rooms in Mexico, Forcing Doctors to Treat Gunmen At Gunpoint
https://www.latintimes.com/cartels-are-taking-over-emergency-rooms-mexico-forcing-doctors-treat-gunmen-gunpoint-587009

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
NATO must be ready for 2-front conflict with Russia and China, top US commander in Europe says
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-07-17/nato-must-be-prepared-for-wars-18470191.html

Exclusive: Military contractor says she was fired for noting problem that ‘jeopardized the safety of U.S civilians and troops
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/pentagon-whistleblower-saic-fired-weapons-code-b2790309.html

President Trump Decreased US Defense Budgets, Here’s The Real Impact. “In a world increasingly shaped by the hard edges of power, the most dangerous illusion is the belief that the United States can deter, compete, and win in future conflicts without major reinvestment in its military
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davedeptula/2025/07/16/why-president-donald-trump-might-increase-americas-defense-budget/

Air Force Shakes Up Helicopter Plans, Wants to Convert Some HH-60Ws. The modified “Whiskeys” would replace aging UH-1 Hueys now operating out of Joint Base Andrews, Md
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-helicopters-shakeup-hh-60-mh-139/#:~:text=The%20Air%20Force’s%20helicopter%20fleet,of%20Joint%20Base%20Andrews%2C%20Md

# Military / Global
China’s Aircraft Carriers Push into Waters Long Dominated by US
https://www.newsweek.com/china-reveals-encounter-western-aircraft-carrier-2100558

# Social / Communities
‘So disrespectful’: This Trump proposal could throw 1.4 million people out of their homes. A proposal from the Trump administration would impose a strict two‑year limit on Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) flagship rental assistance programs, including Section 8 vouchers and public housing. If enacted, the change could leave 1.4 million of the nation’s lowest-income households without housing support
https://www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4114822479705-so-disrespectful-this-trump-proposal-could-throw-1-4-million-people-out-of-their-homes

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
AI, Satellites, and Golden Dome Shine in New House-Passed Defense Bill. The House version of the NDAA takes aim at acquisition and requirements processes that have long bedeviled both Congress and the military.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/07/ai-satellites-and-golden-dome-shine-new-house-passed-defense-bill/406787/

# Veterans / VA
Veterans want the VA to provide the care they need after developing cancer from working at Area 51.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiT8UOY6EWg

# Water / Lakes / Oceans
The Ogallala Crisis: What Happens When America’s Largest Water Source Runs Dry?
https://www.newsbreak.com/discover-wild-science-318442312/4113838167754-the-ogallala-crisis-what-happens-when-america-s-largest-water-source-runs-dry

The one thing Texas won’t do to save its water supply. Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/29/texas-water-crisis-groundwater-rights/

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# Indigenous
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida wants to join a federal lawsuit against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuit-miccosukee-tribe-florida-immigration-164069ac7e4cddc1f7278b218b9cf8f7

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Dem lawmaker: Alligator Alcatraz needs to be “shut the hell down, they’re abusing human beings in cages.”
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-florida-interment-camp-democrats-tour-b2788193.html

Marines rotate border force as service’s immigration operations expand. The Marine Corps swapped out its task force assigned to the southern border mission with a combat logistics unit after nearly six months of repairing the barrier wall
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/15/marines-rotate-border-force-services-immigration-operations-expand.html

Experts make worrisome discovery after analyzing plans for US-Mexico border wall: ‘Would be a tragedy.’ studying wildlife living near wineries: ‘Can be further enhanced.’ The study addressed an ongoing problem.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/vineyard-ecosystems-birds-bats-pest-control/

Fact Check: Inspecting claim ICE deported Marine Corps sergeant major
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-marines-sergeant-major-ruiz/

Federal agents describe unusual run-up to arrests of Pro-Palestinian academics.  The revelations came in an ongoing trial on a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration is targeting pro-Palestinian academics for deportation over their speech.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/15/pro-palestinian-academics-deportations-trial-00454324

Homeland Security agent says he was told not to inform Rümeysa Öztürk her visa was revoked when she was arrested. Patrick Cunningham says his division mainly dealt with drug, financial, and other crimes, but then was told to prioritize case of doctoral student who wrote newspaper op-ed in support of Palestine
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-homeland-security-agent-says-he-was-ordered-not-to-inform-turkish-student-of-visa-revocation/3632334

Irish Tourist Detained For 100 Days By ICE After Overstaying Visa For Three Days: ‘Didn’t See The Sky For Weeks’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention

Man demands justice after being tackled, wrongfully detained by police in front of his kids. A Fourth of July family celebration in Texas took a traumatic turn for one man who says he was tackled and wrongfully detained by police in front of his children.
https://www.kplctv.com/2025/07/12/no-sorry-no-nothing-man-wrongfully-detained-by-police-front-his-kids/

MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell sounded the alarm over a Trump administration memo declaring that detained immigrants are ineligible for a bond hearing, which they said paves the way for a “roundup of millions!”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/msnbc-stars-maddow-and-odonnell-stunned-by-new-trump-legal-bomb-roundup-of-millions/

Trump administration fires 17 immigration court judges across ten states, union says
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/washington/trump-administration-fires-17-immigration-court-judges-across-ten-states-union-says/article_dbfbf018-1685-57b1-a258-5634054103e0.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
The gross national debt of the United States reached $36 trillion yesterday, just over three months since the previous milestone was reached at the end of July, according to the U.S. Treasury.
https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/gross-national-debt-reaches-36-trillion

Trump Signs Megabill Slashing Taxes, and Health Care and Nutrition Benefits Foster Youth and Their Families Rely On
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/trump-signs-megabill-slashing-health-care-and-nutrition-benefits/262477

Senate votes to move ahead with Trump’s request for $9 billion in spending cuts
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/politics/2025/07/16/senate-votes-rescission-package

# Education / Schools
Trump Admin Demands University of Michigan Spill Beans On All Foreign Ties. The Department of Education announced it has opened an investigation into the University of Michigan’s (UM) “inaccurate and incomplete” foreign funding reports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/15/university-of-michigan-education-department-foreign-funding-reports/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Worker says she was pushed to falsify safety records and saw employees lose limbs at Trump-aligned meatpacking plant
https://www.aol.com/worker-says-she-pushed-falsify-171427896.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump’s policies have US states eyeing offshore wind power from Canada and elsewhere. His war on clean power is a “golden opportunity” for our neighbors to the north.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-clean-energy-renewables-policies-states-offshore-wind-power-canada-nova-scotia/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Judge Orders EPA To Continue Funding Environmental Justice Grants For Low-Income & Minority Communities Terminated By Trump Administration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/epa-termination-environmental-justice-grants-unlawful-00411906

House GOP pushes steep EPA and Interior cuts in 2026 budget plan. The bill would approve about $38 billion for agencies under its purview, nearly $3 billion below the fiscal 2025 amount. Interior would get about $14.8 billion and EPA would be funded at $7 billion, a 23 percent cut for the environment agency.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/house-releases-interior-epa-spending-bill-with-deep-cuts/

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
500 tonnes: The volume of high-energy biscuits, enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, that will be burned because of cuts to US foreign-aid programmes made by the Trump administration
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

Coca-Cola under fire after undercover investigation reveals disturbing scenes at farm: ‘A habitual offender.’ An undercover investigation found animal welfare violations at Woodcrest Dairy, a main supplier to Coca-Cola’s fairlife milk brand. The findings have been submitted to authorities.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/fairlife-supplier-dairy-coca-cola-animal-abuse/

# Foods / Things that impact your health
Foods for a Tight Budget. Need to slash your food spending and stay healthy? Shopping list of 21 healthy but relatively cheap foods that you may want to consider putting in your shopping cart.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/cheap-healthy-food

More farms nationwide filed for bankruptcy in first three months of 2025 than all of last year, research shows
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/3472003/farms-bankruptcy-filings-2025/#google_vignette

# General News / Floods
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories

Fact Check: Checking claim Trump sent no Marines to help after Texas floods while thousands were deployed to LA protests. U.S. President Donald Trump actually sent 700 U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in June 2025 — alongside 4,000 National Guard troops.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-marines-la-texas/

The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods: Journalist David Sirota joins “More To The Story” to discuss how climate change drives disasters—while politicians deny and deflect.
https://revealnews.org/podcast/texas-flooding-climate-change-trump-zohran-mamdani/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Speaker Johnson says he supports more transparency on Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell. Host Benny Johnson asked the speaker if he would support Maxwell potentially testifying before Congress. In a recent interview, he conveyed that “we should put everything out there and let the people decide”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY71Yd1kLew

House Republicans blocked the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-khanna-doj-democrats-republicans

House representatives introduce bipartisan bill to release Epstein files. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the release of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, NewsNation has learned.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/rep-ro-khanna-bill-release-epstein-files/

Man Who Served Time in Same Cell as Epstein Says ‘There’s Just No Way’ He Was Able to Kill Himself. According to Franzese, the architectural layout of the cell, specifically the lack of high fixtures and the low height of the beds, wouldn’t allow for a successful hanging. He added that Epstein was reportedly on suicide watch and under constant observation, making the circumstances surrounding his death highly suspicious.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5401606-epstein-prison-video-investigation/

The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out. Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the ‘missing minute.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-raw-prison-video-214543997.html

Jordan Klepper Charts Trump’s Long History With Jeffrey Epstein on ‘The Daily Show’: “The most simple explanation is probably the correct one,” the host said of the president’s unwillingness to release the Epstein files
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/daily-show-hits-donald-trump-041953776.html

# General News
Publicity firm offered $20M to recruit for anti-Trump protests. Crowds on Demand CEO turned down the contract. CEO Adam Swart said he turned the contract down because he believes the demonstrations will not be effective in making change. The protests are honoring late Congressman John Lewis
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/publicity-firm-20-million-trump-protests/

GOP Chair Used Electronic Signature to Sign Autopen Docs. Rep. James Comer used a “wet signature” during his own probe into Joe Biden. James Comer has used a digital signature on documents throughout his investigation into Biden’s use of an autopen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/biden-autopen-james-comer

# Gov / Politics
Trump acquires a brand new nemesis as his request to run America as he pleases is denied.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trump-acquires-a-brand-new-nemesis-as-his-request-to-run-america-as-he-pleases-is-denied/

Confronting the biggest genocide cheerleader in Congress. Watch Max Blumenthal’s confrontation with Republican Rep. Randy Fine, the self-proclaimed “Hebrew Hammer” who revels in violence against civilians in Gaza.
https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/confronting-the-biggest-genocide

Poll Shows Musk’s ‘America Party’ Is a Threat to Trump. Musk’s ‘America Party’, called ‘ridiculous’ by Trump, could threaten Republican majorities in 2026 by attracting disaffected independents and young voters
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3317388/musks-america-party-could-pose-wild-card-threat-trumps-republicans-2026-midterms

Office Hours: Trump Wants to Roll Back America to … When? The question is no longer whether Trump wants to roll back America to an earlier time. The question I hear debated is when? What period of American history is he trying to recapture? When was America “great?” in his and his followers’ view?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-19a

One Of America’s Most Insane Local Politicians Just Won In DC. Despite a looming bribery scandal, Trayon White Sr. secured his seat Tuesday after previously being kicked out following an FBI arrest and charge.
https://www.aol.com/one-america-most-insane-local-044453297.html

Trump reshaped the Supreme Court. Now emergency appeals are helping him reshape the government
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-reshaped-the-supreme-court-now-emergency-appeals-are-helping-him-reshape-the-government/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Federal investigators arrested two police chiefs in Louisiana, sources say a fourth police chief may be arrested. Several federal agencies are involved
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/feds-arrest-two-police-chiefs-in-louisiana/

DA slams justice system as 12-year-old charged with murder. After Hayes was taken into custody, Albuquerque police said the crime rate in his neighborhood went down because he was off the streets. Bregman told “Banfield” it is “so sad” to see a person so young being charged with such a crime.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/12-year-charged-murder-new-mexico/

Minnesota Alleged Assassin Tells FBI that Gov. Walz Solicited Him to Kill Sen. Klobuchar: The man accused of assassinating one Minnesota lawmaker and critically wounding another allegedly wrote that Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to also kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a rambling, conspiracy-laden letter he addressed to the FBI.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/accused-assassin-vance-boelter-claims-175200968.html

CIA Lied About Lee Harvey Oswald’s Connections To Cuban Groups, New Documents Reveal: Newly unearthed CIA documents undermine the agency’s longstanding claim that it had no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties to Cuban dissident groups.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/05/cia-agent-oswald-kennedy-assassination
See also: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

# LGBTQ / Gender
Trump Administration Ends Funding for LGBTQ+ Hotline
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_40e3bfd2-27ae-4212-8ac4-7e2c4f0edb05.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Tucker Carlson goes berserk, issues dire warning for the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWNCRtpH4c

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Congress advances bill that would gut the Medicaid rolls, Senate Republicans approved one of the steepest-ever cuts to publicly funded health insurance today, a move expected to result in millions of Americans losing coverage if they can’t properly complete cumbersome applications or prove they’re employed.
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/congress-advances-bill-that-would-gut-the-medicaid-rolls/262304

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms. A new study in the medical journal The Lancet reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets were altered this spring without any public notice.
https://www.psypost.org/secret-changes-to-major-u-s-health-datasets-raise-alarms/

A rogue doctor just exposed the truth behind Ozempic..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOhGLsbuUU

Johann Hari: They’re Lying To You About The Side Effects Of Ozempic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMnHNIuK3M

The Shocking Truth About Ozempic & The Effects It Has On The Body |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBrvJzPiWU

# Military / Militia / National Guard
Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-los-angeles-national-guard-4424658cc059df31317a83cb53c2b59e

F-15EX Arrives In Japan For The First Time As Part Of Massive Pacific Exercise. The F-15EX Eagle II’s debut as part of a massive contingency response exercise points the way to future Pacific missions for the jet.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-15ex-jets-deploy-to-kadena-training-mission-prepare-for-transition-new-fighters/

The XM7 rifle, the new primary weapon for the U.S. Army infantry, can pierce through body armor
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/guns/xm7-rifle-ngsw.html

# Military / Global
Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine ahead of Trump’s peace talks deadline.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/16/russia-launches-hundreds-of-drones-at-ukraine-defying-trumps-peace-ultimatum-a89835

# Social / Communities
How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town. “We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-volleyball-arrest-eighteen-gomes-da-silva-milford/

Lawsuit Filed After Investigation Found White Bus Driver Made Black Passengers Sit In Back Of Bus
https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/man-sues-jefferson-lines-for-racial-discrimination-after-incident-in-fargo

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
‘Pig butchering’ scams have stolen billions from people around the world. Here’s what you need to know. Scammers establish fake romantic and trusting relationships with victims before luring them into fraudulent investments or other financial traps
https://theconversation.com/pig-butchering-scams-have-stolen-billions-from-people-around-the-world-heres-what-you-need-to-know-252774

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